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Jul 9, 2026
The work of Rod Dreher has a consistent theme: doom. He believes the collapse of Christianity has ushered civilizational decline in Europe, that we’ve traded our humanity for...
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Jun 18, 2026
“If you think this is a bad deal, what is your alternative?” Critics of JD Vance think that his key role in the Iran negotiations may end up being an albatross around his...
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Jun 15, 2026
Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” is a movie in which characters argue about whether the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be a threat to religion,...
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Jun 11, 2026
We can enhance athletic performance, lose weight with a pill and even take psychedelics to alter consciousness. At what point does all this self-optimization become self-obsession?...
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Jun 3, 2026
A world where Talarico disappoints and Platner cruises, on the other hand, will suggest the resilience of what Donald Trump revealed — not just a shrugging attitude toward bad...
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May 11, 2026
The implications of artificial intelligence for religion have earned slightly less attention, thus far, than its implications for the job market or the U.S.-China arms race. But...
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Apr 2, 2026
Did Jesus actually rise from the dead? Heal the sick? Turn water into wine?
How close do the Gospel stories take us to what really happened at the beginning of Christianity?
This is...
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Apr 1, 2026
Over the weekend I wrote about the debate over religious revival in America, touching on the evidence for and against resurgence, the possibility of renewal and decline...
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Mar 30, 2026
In the early 2020s, secularization stopped: After rising for 15 years, the nonreligious share of the American population suddenly stopped growing. Ever since, there’s been a...
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Jan 22, 2026
In the early 2020s, something unexpected happened: America stopped becoming less religious.
The share of Americans with no religious affiliation had been rising for decades....
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Jan 8, 2026
In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take place in an apparent Eden (the cozy village, the...
