In Genesis 32:23–33, Jacob wrestles through the night with a figure Scripture describes as both man and God. The encounter ends without clean resolution: Jacob walks away with a... The…
First Things ↗As a young adult you are told to expect so much from these years, but what do these years expect from us in turn? Things are not as they should…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗What do we mean when we say we love America? Do we love these people, 340 million strong? The light and dark ones, the old and young, the rich and…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Pope Leo XIV recently stated that “We tend to think that when the church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality,... The…
First Things ↗It takes approximately thirty-eight seconds for Miranda Lambert to make me cry. Her 2010 country ballad “The House That Built Me” is a tearjerker from the second line: “Ma’am,... The…
First Things ↗In Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain, the Enlightenment champion Lodovico Settembrini and the Jesuit communist Leo Naphta argue about nearly everything, including the modern project to conquer nature.... The…
First Things ↗I cannot think of other western nations that so reliably produce such remarkable and unruly saints as we seem to grow quite predictably in America.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Vance says a lot about his longing for virtue, but he doesn’t define virtue as an imitation of Jesus’s life. Instead, Vance’s focus is on developing the qualities that make…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Michael Anton joins in to discuss his recent book, Dispatches from the Late Republic: The... The…
First Things ↗One thing I have found more recently in not having a smart phone is this: there is a muscle group I've had to exercise which would have atrophied had I…
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