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Phil GaudreauHistorySociologyCurrent Politics
What sort of legacy are you leaving for your great-grandchildren?
David MooreHistoryBook Reviews
David Moore recently spoke with Andrew Wilson about his recent book, obscure historical figures, and the many factors that drive cultural change.
Jessica MiskellyHistoryLiteratureSexuality
The modern notion of "big romance" is both unrealistic and demeaning to one's partner. Our conception of eros needs to be rescued by agape.
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, […]
David MooreFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics
This marks a veritable baker’s dozen of Guinness books I’ve read. None of the thirteen have been duds, though I certainly have my favorites. Guinness has authored about thirty-five books along with being the lead drafter for the Williamsburg Charter […]
Simon KennedyFeaturedCultureHistoryCurrent Politics
At a recent book launch in Melbourne, one of Australia’s leading Christian scholars, Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, astutely observed that Richard Niebuhr’s models of Christ and culture, a framework which has wielded great influence for decades, is now outdated. Irving-Stonebraker further stated […]
Paul D. MillerFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics
In 2017 and 2018, Notre Dame political philosopher Patrick Deneen argued that classical liberalism and progressivism are indistinguishable. Pick your metaphor: Progressivism is the fruit of liberalism’s poisoned tree. The liberal seed led inexorably to the progressive flowering. Or, liberalism […]
Miles SmithFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics
In the February of 1824, politically active Calvinists across the northern United States finally got their wish for a godly devout president who made the American republic a more explicitly Christian and righteous nation. The House of Representatives chose John […]
Brad LittlejohnFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics
“Christian Nationalism” and the Appeal to History Is America a Christian nation—or was it ever? This vexed question, debated for decades, has been given a new lease on life by the heated and sometimes obsessive conversation around so-called “Christian nationalism” […]
Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews
Gray: If Positivism is the chief source of the twentieth century’s most powerful secular religions it is partly through its impact on the social sciences. For Positivists, modernity is the transformation of the world by the use of scientific knowledge. […]
Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews
Gray: If Positivism is the chief source of the twentieth century’s most powerful secular religions it is partly through its impact on the social sciences. For Positivists, modernity is the transformation of the world by the use of scientific knowledge. […]