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August 26, 2025

Can the Secular Point to the Transcendent?

It was once considered obvious, at least to those in the know, that religion and other superstitions would fade as science made God unnecessary, implausible, and eventually ridiculous. Primitive humans saw gods lurking everywhere because of their ignorance of natural causes, perhaps, and the need for God to fill in the “gaps” of our explanations would in principle disappear. Continue Reading...
August 19, 2025

Frank Meyer: The Triumphs of Mr. Fusionism

As political divisions widen across the American right on topics ranging from the proper conduct of economic policy to the United States’ relationship with the rest of the world, considerable attention has been given to the ensemble of ideas given the label “fusionism.” Continue Reading...
August 15, 2025

Animal Farm at 80

On August 17, 1945—just two days after V-J Day in Asia and fewer than two weeks after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—George Orwell published what he modestly called his “little squib”: Animal Farm. Continue Reading...
August 13, 2025

Hail Corporate Britannia

One of the dominant memes of the 21st century is that of the Great Man (or Great Woman) theory of history. In this view, the 1500s was the century of (seemingly innumerable) great men and women, ranging from Sir Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and Catherine de Medici to Philip II and many more. Continue Reading...
August 07, 2025

Tech and Teens

When school principal Christina Mehaffey first saw the Discover page of Snapchat, she could not believe what she was seeing. The algorithm of an app that was ubiquitous on the phones of her students at Faustina Academy was promoting content that was unambiguously pornographic. Continue Reading...