Butchering Shakespeare

by Josiah Peterson

Shakespeare in the Park reduced Julius Caesar from a morally complex political drama into a heavy-handed tale of progressivism. Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2017

The Internet Isn’t Broken

by Mark Bauerlein

The more opinions are out there in the world, the less each one matters, including the best ones. Continue Reading »

26 May 2017

Progressive Homogenization

by Mark Bauerlein

While progressives are happy to recognize this or that identity, provided that doing so demonstrates their pluralistic instincts, in truth the divisions among these “aggrieved groups” only conduce to centralization. Continue Reading »

7 Dec 2016

Losing Control of History

by William Doino Jr.

If there is one concept that’s taken a massive hit from Donald Trump’s election, it is the idea that secular history can be predicted with certainty by “experts.” Continue Reading »

21 Nov 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

Progressivism’s Fragile Gender Realism

by Aaron Closson

Is there a fact of the matter about a person’s gender? To answer in the affirmative is to adopt a realist stance on questions of gender identity. We could formulate such a realist position as follows: there is a mind-independent feature of reality that decides a person’s gender, and it is not . . . . Continue Reading »

9 May 2016

The Right Side of History

by David T. Koyzis

One generation's progress may fall victim to the next generation's very different agenda. If there is a lesson to be taken from this, it is that history is not, after all, a singular progressive movement along some grand Hegelian trajectory. Continue Reading »

12 Jan 2016

The New York Times's Misanthropy

by Wesley J. Smith

The mainstream media are misanthropic. Article after column after editorial published in our most prominent news outlets promote the view that human exceptionalism is hubristic and arrogant. If we would just rank ourselves alongside the other animals in the forest, we are told repeatedly, we would . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2015

The Idea of Moral Progress

by Richard John Neuhaus

Almost everybody agrees that progress is a good thing. But most self-evidently good things, when examined more closely, have a way of generating disagreements. And so it is with the idea of progress, of which the idea of moral progress is part. Thinkers arguing from the most diverse perspectives . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1999

A New Heaven and a New Earth

by Kathy Kersten

“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of Churches’ “Decade in Solidarity with Women.” Held last November 4-7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, the conference drew 2,200 participants from forty-nine states and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1994