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February 02, 2026

Iran’s Brutal Religious Persecutions

Iran’s Islamist regime is staggering toward its unofficial 47th birthday: the return of Ayatollah Khomeini to Tehran on February 1, 1979. Although a broad coalition overthrew the long-ruling dictator Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Islamic hardliners took control and created a regime that was even more brutal. Continue Reading...
January 28, 2026

Progress and Its Enemies

What ultimately drives economic growth and development? Is it culture, institutions, norms, innovation, technology, or some combination of all these things and other factors? Is there any way in which we can organize societies that will allow them to escape mass impoverishment? Continue Reading...
January 22, 2026

One Box Office Battle After Another

Who’s going to win big at the Oscars? I know: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, its title taken from a statement published in 1969 by the revolutionary-terrorist organization the Weather Underground. Continue Reading...
January 21, 2026

Saving a Liberal Order from Liberal Philosophy

In recent years, Christians across the political spectrum have grown increasingly skeptical of liberalism. Postliberal movements argue that liberal democracy is not merely insufficient but fundamentally hostile to Christianity itself. According to this view, neutrality is a myth, liberal rights are corrosive of virtue, and Christians must choose between faithfulness and liberal politics. Continue Reading...
January 15, 2026

AI and the Return of Architectonic Labor

The free enterprise system’s greatest prophets saw the trade-off from the beginning. The division of labor generates unprecedented wealth while subjecting workers to menial labor that diminishes our personal and political capacities. Continue Reading...
January 14, 2026

Pornocracy and the Limits of Legal Limits

It’s not often that you find a cause that unites a progressive like feminist professor Catharine MacKinnon of the University of Michigan Law School and conservative Catholics and evangelicals. A crusade to pass anti-porn ordinances and statutes was just that cause in the early 1980s. Continue Reading...