Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to... The…
First Things ↗The advent of artificial intelligence has done more than just push the frontier of the digital age; it’s opened questions about consciousness, labor, and what it means to be... The…
First Things ↗My confidence about families in the future is fueled not so much by political reform or the normalizing of gender-neutral chore spreadsheets, but because I have seen so many astonishing…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Solomon's son offers an alarming but instructive example of what can happen when leaders are vain and arrogant.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In his recent memoir, Communion, JD Vance talks about feeling “profoundly sad for today’s kids” navigating the dating scene. “Hookup culture wasn’t good in a lot of ways,” he... The…
First Things ↗Nineteen sixty-six was great for movies, and six decades later, the five nominated for Best Picture at the thirty-ninth Academy Awards the following year are all still worth watching:... The…
First Things ↗"Might could” is a Southern expression meaning “maybe I could” or “I might be able to,” conveying tentative possibility in a way neither verb alone could. The title of Anna…
First Things ↗The Lindsay Clancy case has taken an odd turn online. Clancy is facing three counts of first-degree murder after her children were found strangled in the family’s Duxbury home... The…
First Things ↗Pieper offers a generation inundated by irony, anxiety, productivity-obsession, and cynicism a unique account of joy that owes less to mindless optimism than the rational consequences of recognizing the goodness…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Union with Christ is not the kind of thing one grasps and then moves on from; it is an infinite, inexhaustible well that is the key to the whole of…
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