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March 12, 2025
Ross Douthat Wants You to Believe
In Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Ross Douthat relates a story from a couple of decades ago, in which he had a late-night conversation with the famously combative atheist Christopher Hitchens. Continue Reading...
March 11, 2025
Are You Free?
The early Protestant Reformers famously disbelieved in the freedom of the will. And yet they gave us a legacy of freedom. This paradox is at the heart of Brad Littlejohn’s Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License. Continue Reading...
March 06, 2025
We Are All Makers
There’s a particular pleasure in reading books about making. Business books are “maker” books, in a sense. So are self-help books. The best of these “maker” books are the ones with lots of anecdotes, where we get to see the principles at work. Continue Reading...
March 05, 2025
Jonathan Rauch Is at Cross Purposes with Himself
An old joke: A man walks into a psychiatrist’s office and says, “Doctor, my brother is crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken.” The doctor ponders this and suggests that the man bring his brother in to be treated. Continue Reading...
March 04, 2025
French Laïcité vs. American Secularism
On August 31, 2023, the French Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports issued a statement titled “Respect of Republican Values” (Respect des Valeurs de la République), forbidding pupils to wear the abaya in public schools throughout the national territory. Continue Reading...
February 28, 2025
How Emilia Pérez, Wicked, and Anora Show Why Women Are Moving Left
“Why are men moving to the right?” is a question that seems to be on everyone’s lips. With men and women diverging so much on politics in much-publicized polls, the question makes sense. Continue Reading...
February 27, 2025
Winston Churchill Continues to Inspire
In 1930, Winston Churchill was heading into the worst part of his political career, doomed to criticize his party’s leadership on foreign affairs only to be ignored, marginalized, disdained. At the same time, he was fast approaching his greatest achievement as a writer, the biography of the ancestor who founded his family, John Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, which would occupy him throughout the decade we call “the wilderness years.” Continue Reading...
February 26, 2025
The Hopeful Work of Investigating War Crimes
The house has a small garden with a couple of flower beds and a more practical patch for planting potatoes. Fruit trees and berry bushes also are squeezed in somehow, belying how small the space is. Continue Reading...
February 25, 2025
To Save the West, We Must Save Socrates’ Children
When considering the many woes of modern Western civilization, classicist Spencer Klavan, in How to Save the West, elaborates on the five main crises contributing to today’s decline: the crisis of reality, the body, meaning, religion, and regimes. Continue Reading...
