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Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Every society will be ordered to a higher good. If political systems themselves do not participate in the work, it will simply be taken over by capital.
Joseph MinichBibleFeatured
The Life of Brian's nietzscheanism is one way of responding to death. Jesus, the man of sorrows, exemplifies another response.
Susannah Black RobertsPolitics
Recently, Adrian Vermeule published a piece in Church Life Journal in which he pointed out the inherently destabilizing nature of liberalism. As he describes it, the “natural laws” of the life of regimes dictate that the persistence of a regime […]
Jake Meador
In his book The World Beyond Your Head Matthew Crawford uses the idea of a jig to explain how a carpenter might go about accomplishing a task more quickly and efficiently. Jigs are a kind of hack, a method for doing […]
Brad LittlejohnPoliticsFeatured
I made my way to the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Washington D.C. for the National Conservatism Conference Sunday evening with some trepidation, unsure what to expect, and feeling wildly out of place among what seemed like a crowd of thinktank wonks, […]
Tara Isabella BurtonFeatured
The world doesn't need an extrinsic re-enchantment, an apocalyptic sweeping of fire and blood. It is already enchanted. The Incarnation is proof.
Daniel DeCarloFeatured
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election victory in February of this year was in many ways a surprise. His first term’s report card included a failing economy, rising violence, higher unemployment, and almost no progress in tackling corruption and lawlessness. This […]
Barton GingerichFeaturedEvangelicalism
June has been dubbed “Pride Month,” a new holy festival in our cultural calendar. Just in time for the season, logos of powerful, influential corporations have changed their logos to rainbow hues. Pop idol Taylor Swift dropped a new song […]
Tessa CarmanFeaturedCreation Care
Practicing resurrection in a technocratic, throwaway culture can begin with returning to the soil, where the death of the seed yields life.
Brad EastFeaturedCulture
There is no reason to enthusiastically consume large amounts of pop culture. There are far better pleasures available if we would avail ourselves of them.
S. DormanFeatured
Hunting is either a discipline or a confused slaughter. Walking home this morning I thought first, not of hunting, but of my usual route along the road. I was also thinking about writing a paper on Johannes Kepler and emerging […]
Guest WriterFeatured
In an ephemeral and distracted era, remembrance is a form of revolt. It calls us to indwell more fully an era and way of living quite distinct from our own.