The age of the comic book superhero movie is over. I don’t say this with glee. I am a huge fan of superhero movies and will probably still go to see the latest MCU film till the day I die. Continue Reading...
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October 03, 2025
Are Americans Too Political?
The most common explanation for America’s political violence problem is that we’re hyperpoliticized, that we’re too obsessed with politics. But this diagnosis has it backward. Americans aren’t too political—we’re not political enough. Continue Reading...
October 02, 2025
Ubuntu and the Free Market: An African Ethic of Community
For many outside Africa, the word ubuntu is just a software brand or a vague slogan about togetherness. In much of sub-Saharan Africa, however, it is a moral tradition. It frames human beings as deeply relational and bound to one another in mutual care. Continue Reading...
October 01, 2025
We Are All Dependent—And That’s Our Strength
Leah Libresco Sargeant’s The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto depicts a human ideal for the post-industrial workforce. Such a human can work any number of hours, has no personal entanglements, and suffers from no bodily needs:
Through a combination of pressure and compensation, the company has succeeded in denying basic biological reality and making that contradiction the employees’ problem. Continue Reading...
September 30, 2025
The Virtue of Patriotism
As an American who grew up amid the Cold War, patriotism had an obvious attraction. Who wouldn’t prefer the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, free markets, belief in God, and rock and roll over the gray, atheistic, materialistic totalitarianism of the Soviet Union. Continue Reading...
September 29, 2025
The Question of Thomas More
A new biography of a great man, especially one whose life is already rich with lore, is a delicate task. There is the temptation to attempt something new, or worse, to try to make the story “relevant”—even “urgent,” heaven forbid—by inserting into the great one’s life some zippy contemporary narrative (usually sexual). Continue Reading...
September 25, 2025
Will the Big Bang Go Pop?
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Continue Reading...
September 24, 2025
Cycles of Censorship in a Nation of Speech
Debates about Charlie Kirk’s work and legacy inevitably involve the issue of free speech. Both supporters and opponents of Kirk would probably agree that he devoted his life to bringing conservative ideas into institutions that had been relatively isolated from or hostile to such ideas. Continue Reading...
September 23, 2025
The ‘Religious’ Corporate Social Responsibility Trap
When it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR), the principle caveat emptor takes on a special urgency: What we think we are getting and what we actually get are sometimes two very different things. Continue Reading...
September 18, 2025
Subsidiarity, Not Supranationalism
There is a deeply misguided belief that the road to justice lies in the consolidation of authority into ever-larger international institutions, particularly in the post-Christian landscape of global governance and political power. Continue Reading...
