The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange

by Alan Jacobs

Debate over the Benedict Option has been conducted at the level of competing world-historical metanarratives. Instead, let’s focus on the local and personal. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2017

Send Your Children to Middlebury College

by Robert P. George

Our motto is “a little learning (or even thinking) is a dangerous thing.” Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2017

In Praise of the “New Alarmism”

by Charles J. Chaput

When they suggest that something’s gone seriously wrong with our nation’s culture, and further suggest what American Christians might need to do about it, Dreher and Esolen have plenty of persuasive company. Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2017

Your “Wellness” or Your Freedom

by Wesley J. Smith

When does a laudable desire to reduce healthcare costs become an obsession with controlling how we live our lives? Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2017

The Agony of Paul Ryan

by Pete Spiliakos

The wonky, compromising Ryan was a very useful fellow—but Republicans couldn’t leave well enough alone. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2017

Persuasive Disciples, Not Anarchic Disrupters

by George Weigel

In today’s deeply divided America, the public debate is too often being framed by those who substitute invective for argument while demonstrating a visceral contempt for normal democratic political and legal process. Unless reason reasserts itself over passion, the potential for short-term chaos is great and the risk of long-term damage even greater. Continue Reading »

15 Mar 2017

A Cheap Shot on Chaput, Esolen, Dreher

by Mark Bauerlein

James K. A. Smith's attack on the so-called “new alarmism” is unfair and uncivil. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2017

Generation Z: Desperate for Rules

by Betsy VanDenBerghe

Abiding by moral rules, especially when they are explained meaningfully and mercifully, gives teenagers swimming in a sea of relativism and nihilism a “moral vocabulary.” Sympathy isn’t enough. People need norms. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2017

How Many Foreigners Is an American Worth?

by James R. Rogers

How should Christians respond to the tradeoffs of globalization? Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2017

Creation Careless

by John Murdock

When will we have a chance to piece back together a conservatism and a Christian worldview with something edifying to say about all of creation? Continue Reading »

10 Mar 2017