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How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by david brooksrandom house, 320 pages, $30 David Brooks, an opinion columnist at the New York...

I noticed it last Christmas: It’s the women who really hate Ebenezer Scrooge. In the opening scene of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the main victims of Scrooge’s scorn are his...

I’m a great lover of the English language, but I must confess that, lately, I’ve come to dread three words in particular. You hear them everywhere—at dinner, at the...

The almost complete lack of reflection on the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies for producing children is a telling sign of the unseriousness of our age. The transformation of...

All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of this essay—Can modernity survive for much longer?—I want to start with a...

Ressourcement. It’s a French word that means “resourcing”—or, better, “re-sourcing.” As a term in theology, it calls for renewal based on a return to richer, more original sources, especially...

Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom” in a recent book by that name, described as democratic politics in a constitutional...

There’s a car mechanic I have known for years. Ed knew my father and worked on his cars; he knows me and my cars; he knows my wife; he...

Not with the myth and phosphorus of metaphor. Notwith lines of force looped in true-love knots.Not by dumping the urn and reading the ashes. Notthrough sonic wantonness, but not...

Those early weeks, you could have been anyone,   Too young for fingerprints, much less a name,And years away from our first catch-and-toss—   A little flesh and blood, no brain,...

The Widening of God’s Mercy:Sexuality Within the Biblical Story by christopher b. hays and richard b. haysyale university, 288 pages, $28 Over the course of a long and fruitful...

Living in Wonder:Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age by rod dreherzondervan, 288 pages, $29.99 Is life worth living? “It depends on the liver.” Thus did William James...

The English Soul:Faith of a Nation by peter ackroydreaktion books, 416 pages, $30 Peter Ackroyd is a major figure in contemporary English letters, a fluent and pleasing writer with...

Democracy and Solidarity:On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis by james davison hunteryale university, 504 pages, $40 For the last few decades, James Davison Hunter has eloquently chronicled...

Still Breathing I appreciated Matthew Burdette’s insights into “Progressive Supersessionism” (October 2024), drawing out continuities between today’s anti-theological progressive claim to supersede traditional religion and culture and that movement’s...