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…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Communion:Finding My Way Back to Faithby jd vanceharpercollins, 304 pages, $35 In the sixth book of his Confessions, St. Augustine relates a story about an encounter he had on... The…
First Things ↗A 2007 Lifeway study found that 70 percent of young American adults who regularly attended a Protestant church in high school stopped attending upon reaching college age. Unhappy with... The…
First Things ↗The first time I heard about just war theory was in my military ethics class. As midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, we understood that our nation expected more... The…
First Things ↗Our very mode of life cuts our attempts at connecting off at the knees. In a digital age, our default posture is one of performance. If we are to move…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Every pope has his defining mission, a papal charism of sorts that characterizes and in time becomes a shorthand for his pontificate. Paul VI was the reformer of the... The…
First Things ↗If gender is an ordering principle in the creation of the cosmos, then we should expect it to also be an ordering principle within the re-creation of the cosmos.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Alan Greenspan died this week at the age of one hundred. Greenspan had a long time to make his imprint on the world—and make his imprint he surely did.... The…
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