The Lost Boys, a Broadway musical adapted from the 1980s vampire flick, opens with a flickering specter. A doomed cop is searching a condemned warehouse when a TV suddenly... The…
First Things ↗Readers seem less interested in the subject matter than in having their own prior opinions endorsed. But what good nonfiction needs is the integrity of an author who knows what…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In his breakout 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain recounts his early years as a cook in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The memoir serves as the... The…
First Things ↗Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have... The…
First Things ↗"A time will come when we will know what all this is for. And there will be no mysteries. We will know why we live. We’ll come together. We’ll plan…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Ralph C. Hancock joins in to discuss his recent book, Love and Virtue in a Secular... The…
First Things ↗Five years ago, the most powerful media companies in the world—Facebook and Twitter, as it was then called—chose to deplatform Donald Trump. They cited public safety concerns following the... The…
First Things ↗We must pray for hearts that desire not a fragile, fleeting sense of self that must be recreated each day while we await validation via notifications, but one that longs…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Last week, some 70,000 African migrants invaded Ceuta. A coastal town of 84,000 people, Ceuta is the last remnant of Spanish presence in North Africa, along with the town... The…
First Things ↗Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstreamby dixie dillon laneeerdmans, 216 pages, $28.99 Dixie Dillon Lane’s Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and... The…
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