Freedom After Communism
by Ben SixsmithThe fight for freedom can be intoxicating. Defining it has proved more difficult.
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How We Pray
by John WilsonI often feel great disjunction between my own experience of prayer and what many people say about it—not only in books, but in conversation, in church, and in many other settings. Continue Reading »
Imperial Selves and Deteriorating Persons
by M. D. AeschlimanBoth arrant trumpery and much of our current “Great Awakening” are lethal to Western civilization, of which we are the beneficiaries and should be the guardians. Continue Reading »
What We’ve Been Reading—January 2022
by EditorsOur editors reflect on Eugene Vodolazkin, detective fiction, Jonathan Franzen, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, and Flannery O’Connor. Continue Reading »
Russia, Ukraine, and Moral Reckoning
by George WeigelPutin is conducting a carefully orchestrated campaign to reverse history’s verdict in the Cold War and subjugate the now-independent former “republics” of the old Soviet Union. Continue Reading »
Encanto and the Benedict Option
by Leah Libresco SargeantAny community of refuge, especially a Benedict Option community, must find a way for its members to support one another in moving from fear to courage, scarcity to charity, walls to windows. Continue Reading »
Loving and Hating the Middle Ages
by John DugganModern people, despite being drawn to medieval aesthetics and artificats, cannot seem to bear to examine what those artifacts are modeled on: the intelligible order glimpsed by the eye of faith. Continue Reading »
Pro-lifers Must Go on Offense
by Frank CannonLife is a winning issue, and by putting it front and center in the political arena, we can change the culture and save countless lives. Continue Reading »
A Politics of Home
by Diederik BoomsmaRather than doubling down on the politics of safety, we need a politics of home that points toward the permanent things. Continue Reading »
Van Gogh’s God
by Peter J. LeithartVan Gogh didn’t reject the supernatural, but naturalized it. What terror there is in his paintings is the sublime terror evoked by the uncanny beauty of what Scripture identifies as the glory of God. Continue Reading »
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