Reading—for obvious reasons—Henri Daniel-Rops’s The Church in the Dark Ages, I have been repeatedly struck by the truism that moments of institutional crisis demand genuinely great leaders. Movements, forces, trends... The…
First Things ↗Today civil political discourse seems like a Tasmanian Tiger or Passenger Pigeon: a fascinating thing of the past but gone for good. Political turbulence marks us, and with it an…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Last month, Meta and Google were found guilty of negligence in a lawsuit arguing that social media has helped fuel a generation’s mental health crisis. The plaintiff was a young…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Trueman’s new book, The Desecration of Man, should further cement his authority. It supplements, focuses, and in some fundamental ways deepens the analysis of The Rise and Triumph of the…
First Things ↗On Sunday night, after a heated and chaotic election campaign, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party lost in a landslide after sixteen years in power. The... The…
First Things ↗Your Eminence: In an article recently published by a major German Catholic website, you suggested that the question of whether the Church can ordain women has not been definitively... The…
First Things ↗Julian Peters. Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poetry. Plough Books, 2026. $29.95. 152 pp.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Two years ago, I wrote a piece for Mere Orthodoxy, “Homeschooling, Luddite Style.” At the time, screens in schools were only beginning to make alarmed headlines, and many parents seemed…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗More than two centuries ago, Søren Kierkegaard attacked the established church of his native Denmark. He denounced it for encouraging outward “Christian” behavior rather than authentic belief. People identified... The…
First Things ↗Who is worth remembering? Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, though so destructive to Christian thinking, are household names. But Orestes Brownson (1803–1876), America’s most profound Catholic thinker and a... The…
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