The Archive
Matthew Loftus
A song that I have thought about a lot in the last few months as I’m trying to get right side up on using the Internet is Sara Groves’ This Cup: Thank God for our dependence Here’s to our chasm […]
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
A man said "if it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes one to abuse a child." That sums up the reasons for our culture's turn against the faith.
Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice
This deeply-reported story about a young man who tried to cooperate with law enforcement and escape MS-13 is both moving and unsettling: Henry did his part to aid the federal crackdown on MS-13. In addition to the gang members he […]
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
Mere Fidelity: Hospitality and Immigration, with Dr. Matthew Kaemingk
Matthew Loftus
I enjoyed this story by Shira Telushkin about the Coptic Church in America adapting culturally. Growing up in the church and working overseas, debates about how to adapt to “the culture” are usually about European or Western traditions either trying […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Smoking is very, very bad. It’s in everyone’s interest to cut it back. And it looks like e-cigarettes might be helpful as smokers try to quit! And then the kids started doing it… and then the kids found the juul. Cigarette […]
Matthew LoftusFamily
I am a bit biased because Wes Hill is a dear friend, but man! This essay of his in Comment about breaking up with a friend and choosing to build deep, intimate friendships with families is so good: I spent my […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Last week provided two more examples of what is an increasingly hard-to-dispute fact: There will be little mercy in the post-2016 United States.
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics
Everyone loves a good read about the history of sex robots, right? “Sex robots,” therefore, have always been about more than sex. They’ve been a cultural repository for wider uncertainties in times of social change: a literalization of the fear […]
Matthew LoftusCultureCriminal Justice
Shadi Hamid, Vanda Felbab-Brown, and Harold Trinkunas share an excerpt from their new book on governance and trust, a subject that I’ve been banging on about for quite a while now: The Taliban claims to adhere to a strict interpretation of […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
I’ve never seen a better, more succinct Q&A on what a good diet means, so I’m sharing this one: I feel smarter, but what happens when new information comes out, like, tomorrow? How can I stay up to date? It seems […]
Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice
This article about Palantir is something else: “The world changed when it became clear everyone could be targeted using Palantir,” says a former JPMorgan cyber expert who worked with Cavicchia at one point on the insider threat team. “Nefarious ideas […]