Baseball and Rumors of Angels
by George WeigelBaseball is a “signal of transcendence”—a window into the supernatural. Continue Reading »
Speaking of Unbelief
by Ephraim RadnerThere has been a spate of reports on disappearing churches, waning faith, changing religious attitudes, and the ways in which COVID has affected the religious landscape. The numbers reported are probably accurate; there probably are fewer people going to church these days, with the number decreasing . . . . Continue Reading »
Julia Yost on Trauma
by R. R. RenoJulia Yost joins editor R. R. Reno to talk about how the language of trauma has infected our public conversation. Continue Reading »
The Moral Significance of Modern Food
by John KainerThe modern food system is essentially its own religious system, using a network of symbols and phrases to make moral claims and create its own sacred-profane distinction. Continue Reading »
Sympathy For the Devil
by Francis X. MaierThe Family Story Project attempts to “dismantle family privilege” by casting the traditional family as diseased and oppressive. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousI read with much interest Bruce D. Marshall’s “No Liberal Home” (August/September). I applaud his invocation of St. Augustine’s doctrine of the two cities, reminding us that our heavenly home is not identical to any earthly regime—even one as relatively welcoming as our liberal . . . . Continue Reading »
Woke Totemism
by Alexander RileyA year ago in April, a student group at the university where I teach invited Amy Wax, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, to speak on the topic of racial inequality. Days before the talk, the faculty email list exploded with vituperative attacks on Wax and on the student group . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousDE GAULLE In “A Certain Idea of France” (April), Peter Hitchens goes too far when he concludes that de Gaulle was “the last stand of a great lost cause” of a Europe of independent nations: “De Gaulle’s desire for a Europe of independent nations, including a resurgent France, was doomed . . . . Continue Reading »
A Religion of Activism
by Alexander RileyIn 2002, in these pages, Peter Berger, the late American sociologist, offered a succinct summary of the health and status of sociology. In Invitation to Sociology (1963), he had praised its promise. Two generations later, he offered a much more pessimistic picture. Now, a decade and a . . . . Continue Reading »
Sacred Sociology
by Richard SpadyThe Sacred Project of American Sociologyby christian smithoxford, 224 pages, $28.95 Things wouldn’t be so bad if the sacred project of American sociology were just the sacred project of American sociology. Allowances are made for sociologists. The problem is that all the human sciences as . . . . Continue Reading »
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