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Opinion

Dark Age Theology

Ephraim Radner

We are facing a Dark Age. In this new era, theology will need to be sparer, stripped…

Jonestown University

Alexander Riley

In the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict, Bucknell University, the liberal arts school where I work,…

Letters

Various

Catholic Realities Ross Douthat’s summary of the state of the Catholic conversation (“Catholic Ideas and Catholic Realities,”…

T Is for Timeless

Elizabeth Corey

Once a month, a robin’s-egg-blue box arrives at our house. “Mama! Mama! My books are here!” shouts…

The Gospel According to Kanye

Liel Leibovitz

If you don’t pay too much attention to pop culture, you may be forgiven for thinking that…

They Did It for the Kids

Joseph E. Davis

Operation Varsity Blues,” the 2019 college admissions scandal, returned to the news earlier this year when a…

Essays

Safetyism

R. R. Reno

I don’t know anyone who believes in transhumanism, the techno-fantasy that we can merge our consciousness with computers…

Sexual Counter-Revolution

Scott Yenor

Planned Parenthood recently distributed flyers at ­Stewart Middle School in Tacoma, Washington. The flyers targeted eleven-­year-olds, informing…

Tech Pluralism

Nathan S. Chapman

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are virtual public squares, allowing individuals to communicate…

The Failure of Evangelical Elites

Carl R. Trueman

There are times in history when Christianity feels its place in ­society coming under threat. As it finds…

Tolstoy’s Wisdom and Folly

Gary Saul Morson

In his speech “The Strenuous Life,” Theodore Roosevelt identified “the American character” with “the life of toil…

Reviews

Audacious Abe

Allen C. Guelzo

The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedomby h. w.…

Briefly Noted

Various

All That God Cares About: Common Grace and Divine Delightby richard j. mouwbrazos, 176 pages, $22 Richard…

Dramas of Decline and Fall

Gregory Wolfe

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts: A Novelby christopher behatin house, 528 pages, $27.95 r Missionaries: A Novelby phil…

Reading Lewis

Gilbert Meilaender

After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s the Abolition of Manby michael wardword on fire academic, 253 pages,…

The Necessity of Nationalism

Nathan Pinkoski

After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Divisionby samuel goldmanuniversity of pennsylvania, 208 pages, $25 Those involved…

The Old Evangelization

Bronwen Catherine McShea

Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empireby daniel i. wasserman-solerpenn…

Poetry

Acorns

Sarah Rossiter

Listeningto acorns fallfrom the oaksin the last lightof a late summerday to land out ofsight on the…