At his May summit in Beijing, President Trump made an effort to convince Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai from his imprisonment in Hong Kong. Jimmy, whom... The…
First Things ↗Robert Louis Wilken (1936–2026) passed away on Saturday, June 6, at age eighty-nine. A former chairman of the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life and lifelong... The…
First Things ↗Soon Leo will be dialoguing with a people formed by a machine intelligence that propagates counterfeit inhabitation, one that accustoms people to experience Christianity by asking a chatbot to teach…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Lincoln was a great man and leader not despite his frequent melancholy, but because he kept going even under the weight of melancholy.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗The words of a dead man / Are modified in the guts of the living.” Neither W. H. Auden, who wrote these lines in 1939, nor W. B. Yeats,... The…
First Things ↗On June 3, a debate about the silent genocide of unborn children with Down syndrome exploded on social media. The unlikely catalyst was an X post by YouTube influencer... The…
First Things ↗Stravinsky rightly said that our freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly we limit our field of action and the more we surround ourselves…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗The experience of resonance will not be manufactured by tech overlords.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Matthew Mehan joins in to discuss his recent book, The American Book of Fables. The... The…
First Things ↗At their Florida meeting on June 10–12, the American Catholic bishops will vote on proposed revisions to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, colloquially known... The…
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