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Mere Orthodoxy ↗On today’s episode, writer Kelly Chapman joins Virginia and Germán. According to the discourse, it’s fashionable to be religious. There’s also a lot of talk about returning to traditional... The…
First Things ↗Margaret Kennedy—novelist, playwright, historian, critic—is having another moment. Feted and famous after the 1924 publication of her second novel, The Constant Nymph, Kennedy stopped writing novels during World War... The…
First Things ↗Darel Paul’s excellent First Things article on the Jason Arday scandal pinpoints a number of the problems now rife in academia, problems that I can attest are so well-established... The…
First Things ↗“Do not aspire to immortal life, O my soul; but exhaust the limits of the possible.” Pindar (Pyth. III.61–62)
Mere Orthodoxy ↗This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s week. Amid the backlash over her cavalier dismissal of “Woke 1″—the era of far-left activism and rhetoric that peaked in 2020—speculation about a 2028 presidential... The…
First Things ↗No computer program can determine truth. But the authoritative-sounding voice and the ability to get an answer to any question that statistically feels right, even if it’s wrong, are beguiling.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core is dominated by a magnificent eleventh-century cathedral, the resting place of German... The…
First Things ↗In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV writes that a school should be a place where the young learn to “seek and love the truth.” He worries about an educational... The…
First Things ↗Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal in Anglo-American higher education was professor of sociology of education at the... The…
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