How Pop Nietzscheanism Masquerades as Christianity
by Carl R. TruemanThe Church needs to remain faithful to her appointed task and not become simply an arm of those vying for political power. Continue Reading »
Masculinity Is Tragic
by James DiddamsChrist, as the archetype of perfected humanity, presents the fullest model of masculinity. Continue Reading »
Deadly Virtues
by Sebastian MilbankWe live in a divided age. My country of Britain increasingly exhibits the same sort of partisanship that wracks America. It can be hard to witness the bitter divisions of the culture war, and the terrible arguments setting friends and family at odds, and not conclude that we are living in that age . . . . Continue Reading »
Clinging to God and Grammar
by Carl R. TruemanThe battle over pronouns on social media and in public spaces, as trivial as it seems, is actually of great importance. Continue Reading »
The Triumph of the Social Scientific Method
by Carl R. TruemanThe politics of contemporary social science now has an iron grip on what are deemed legitimate perceptions of reality. Continue Reading »
Nietzsche’s Pilate
by Mark BauerleinIn one of his most irreverent moments, in the wild little book The Anti-Christ, composed not long before he completely lost his mind, Nietzsche states that there is only one admirable figure in the entire New Testament, one character alone who deserves our respect: Pontius Pilate. It’s an . . . . Continue Reading »
Liberal Ressentiment
by Julius KreinAge of Anger: A History of the Presentby pankaj mishrafarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $26 Despite the subtitle of his book, Pankaj Mishra is not interested in understanding the past or the present. His aim, instead, is to dispose of those who voted for Trump, Brexit, Netanyahu, or Modi, . . . . Continue Reading »
Death of God Fifty Years On
by Matthew RoseOn April 8, 1966, a five-thousand-word cover story appeared in Time magazine, sending the country into a panic over a group of theologians few had heard of then and nobody remembers now. Paul van Buren, Thomas Altizer, and William Hamilton are forgotten. The cover, however, remains memorable. The . . . . Continue Reading »
When You Unchain the Earth from the Sun
by Carl R. Trueman In which I both challenge the trans community to face up to the implications of their own logic and, in honor of the season of goodwill, selflessly offer the New Left a helping hand by coining a term for a novel and pernicious form of oppression.
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Atheists Annoyed in Troy
by Mark BauerleinLast month, American Atheists sent a letter of complaint to the chancellor at Troy demanding an apology. Continue Reading »
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