Christian Freedom

by Dan Hitchens

For Christians, freedom consists not in how many choices you have but in whether you can choose the right thing. Continue Reading »

14 Nov 2017

Home, Not Freedom

by R. R. Reno

In 2017, we need to restore stability and trustworthiness to civic life—not simply reiterate our defenses of freedom. Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2017

What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs

by Matthew Schmitz

Dispatches from the debate: Any left that is unable to see the way we are enslaved by lust will end up the unwitting handmaiden of those who exploit. Continue Reading »

30 May 2017

Spiritual Freedom

by John P. Burgess

On the outskirts of Moscow, there is an Orthodox Christian memorial. The site, known as Butovo, once belonged to a private estate. The Soviets expropriated the land after the revolution and turned it into a firing range. It was there during Stalin’s purges that more than 20,000 “enemies of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2017

A More Perfect Absolutism

by Michael Hanby

It is part of the absurdity of American life that we decide questions of truth under the guise of settling contests of rights. Which means that we decide questions of truth without thinking deeply or even very honestly about them. Thus, while it is obvious to many that we are living through a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2016

The Whig Narrative and American Christianity

by James R. Rogers

All Americans are Whigs, distinguished only by their more-liberal or more-conservative Whiggery. Continue Reading »

20 Sep 2016

Rotting-Flesh Reaganism

by R. R. Reno

Ted Cruz failed to endorse Donald Trump for president. Snore. It’s a sign of how out-of-touch our political class has become that they speak of Cruz as a possible presidential candidate. In him, see the rotting flesh of Reaganism, a noble political project that no longer speaks to our time. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2016

The Language of Love

by Carl R. Trueman

The politicizing of the language of love is confusing and lethal for freedom. Continue Reading »

24 May 2016

The Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University

by Matthew J. Franck

Next autumn will mark forty years since I arrived on a college campus as a freshman. I’ve never left the academy since then. I have been student or teacher at many types of institutions: the small liberal-arts college, the “Research I” state university that completely dominates a small town, . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Dec 2015

“For Freedom Set Free”

by Bianca Czaderna

As I took the plane to South Bend for this Fall's Center for Ethics and Culture conference, I wondered how exactly “freedom” would be spoken of.

7 Dec 2015