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Patrick Miller and Paul AnleitnerCulture
Irony fatigue has set in. Cynicism is boring. Cringe is good. Welcome to metamodernity.
Jonathan CioranCulturePolitical Theory
The most likely ideology to define the future of the American right is the anti-democratic technophilia of tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
Jake MeadorCulture
The controversy around Butker's speech doesn't suggest we should reject Christian virtues to secure our place in a hostile world, but quite the opposite.
Jake MeadorCultureHealth & MedicineFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Two recent essays, one in New York and the other at The Free Press, further demonstrate how inhumane and starved for love our cultural moment truly is.
Stephen G. AdubatoCultureSociology
The carefully curated, devoid of risk suburban dream has bred an anxious generation unable to aspire to greatness, or even simply live well on their own.
Ross ByrdCultureChurch
The most effective evangelistic message for our day may not be 'you are accepted as you are' but rather 'be holy, as God your Father is holy.'
John AhernMusicCulture
A culture that views music only as a thing to be produced by professionals and consumed by an audience will find itself cut off from much of life's beauty.
T. M. SuffieldCultureChurch
A time of social breakdown and decay is a fraught time in which to build new institutions—and yet that is precisely the work such a moment calls for.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture
Due to a variety of factors, journalism in the digital age has in many places been swallowed by PR. Part of this is a function of the way online networks tend to work, while part of it is due to […]
Stiven PeterFeaturedCultureEvangelicalism
On Sundays, I go to a church whose senior pastor and elder board were mentored by Tim Keller. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I attend classes in a seminary brought to New York by Tim Keller. When I see a homeless […]
John EhrettFeaturedCultureHistory
The third act of Robert Zemeckis’s underrated Beowulf adaptation begins with a dour meditation. “We men are the monsters now,” the aging hero rumbles. “The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf—the Christ God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing […]
Michael ShindlerPoliticsFeaturedCultureHistory
Since the modern-turn, no topic has provoked more speculation—from as many angles and at the nexus of so many disciplines—than that of modernity itself. We speculate as to when it really started, where it has as of yet taken hold, […]