Thinkers from nearly every intellectual tradition agree that we live in an age when ideology dominates public life. Who or what we can accurately label as ideological is as essentially contested as the rest of politics. Continue Reading...
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March 22, 2024
Can We Agree to Disagree Agreeably?
For the past two and a half years, Republicans have used the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” as shorthand for a profane phrase that begins with an “F” and ends with the president’s name. Continue Reading...
March 21, 2024
Transhumanism in a Sacramental Universe
When contemporary transhumanists like Yuval Noah Harari speak about future migrations and amalgamations of human consciousness, they generally preface their ideas with outright dismissals of religion and the truths it may offer. Continue Reading...
March 19, 2024
Making the World Safe for Children—Lots of Them
In nearly every era prior to our own, the links between sex, marriage, and children were considered a given, not a state of affairs to be questioned, let alone altered. Not so today, as the widespread availability of contraception and related changes in mores have enabled men and women to engage in sex without commitment—and, in many cases, to pursue both sex and marriage without any necessary connection to parenthood. Continue Reading...
March 15, 2024
The Ides of Death
The name of the Acton Institute’s magazine, Religion and Liberty, seems to many people an oxymoron. The word “religion” apparently emerged from religare, “to bind together, to constrain.” How can something that binds be liberating? Continue Reading...
March 14, 2024
The Decline and Fall of Constitutional Law
People around the world are grossly misinformed about the nature and character of government. They do not understand the need for limits on government for it to remain a useful instrument and not a coercive one. Continue Reading...
March 13, 2024
Hope in a Time of Secular Despair
“Humans are not well-suited to radical immanence.” After all, those who believe only in what they can see are still made in the image of God and possess a supernatural purpose even when they reject any kind of transcendent reality. Continue Reading...
March 12, 2024
There the Story Stops: Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?
After a silence of nearly 60 years, following her untimely death from lupus, Flannery O’Connor’s hitherto-unpublished prose rises from the page like one of her own fictional epiphanies—electric, immediate, and alive. Continue Reading...
March 08, 2024
The Zone of Interest and the Family Next Door
Jonathan Glazer has been nominated for two Oscars, as writer and director of The Zone of Interest, a movie about Nazis that was also nominated for Best Picture and Best International Film. Continue Reading...
March 07, 2024
The Fallacy of Fairness: Sowell’s Critique of Modern Social Justice
Officially retired and well into his 90s, Thomas Sowell shows no signs of intending to stop helping the world understand social questions at the intersection of politics and economics. The keys to comprehending the entirety of Thomas Sowell’s writings lie in three pivotal texts: Say’s Law, A Conflict of Visions, and Knowledge and Decisions. Continue Reading...
