President Trump deserves our prayers, but not our blind loyalty or trust, because one can never be too careful in protecting and preserving human life—and monitoring politicians who pledge to uphold it. Continue Reading »
The First Things Podcast, Episode 22. Featuring: Donald Trump’s first week in office; and RIP William Peter Blatty, Catholic author of The Exorcist. Continue Reading »
Forty-four years after Roe, a reverence for the sanctity of human life still burns in the spirit of far too many people to ignore. Continue Reading »
Will believers be freer to be believers under Trump than they have been for the past twenty-five years? Continue Reading »
The choice of Paula White to pray at Donald Trump's inauguration has little significance theologically but speaks eloquently of the state of the nation. Continue Reading »
More than any other politician, Clinton prepared the public for the devil’s bargain Trump would later make with his supporters. Continue Reading »
Donald Trump’s friendliness toward Russia has the potential to reshape global politics. Continue Reading »
What does the Carrier deal mean for limited-government politics? How can principled conservatives accommodate themselves to Trump’s scrambling of political categories? Continue Reading »
My only goal was to select the candidate who would be most subject to the constraints of power under our constitutional system. Continue Reading »
We still live in a contested environment. The candidate who flouted political correctness won. But his victory does not necessarily represent a victory for religious conservatives. Continue Reading »
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