1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (251+ words) The Golden Thread:A History of the Western TraditionVolume I: The Ancient World and Christendomby james hankinsencounter, 1,308 pages, $120Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary Westby allen c. guelzoencounter, 880 pages, $120 Unlike Fo, Guelzo and Hankins cannot afford to express themselves loosely, vaguely, or in symbolic…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (120+ words) It is only upon readers who wish to see a Christian civilization survive and develop that I am urging the importance of the study of Latin and Greek. If Christianity is not to survive, I shall not mind if the…...

2+ day, 39+ min ago   (139+ words) I confess that English pubs have been among the great joys of my life. I routinely give directions around Gloucestershire by the names of the various village pubs, and even this summer I managed to indulge a little in visiting…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (78+ words) With Constitution Day taking place this month, a few books on the Founding of our republic are worth notice. Mark Bauerlein is contributing editor at First Things. A new play inspired by the seven-film Paranormal Activity series is now on…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (415+ words) What struck me as much less just, and laced with an even bigger helping of hypocrisy, was the refusal of public authorities—including my own state’s then–attorney general, Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro—to acknowledge the same or worse abuse problems…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (188+ words) Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day. In those innocent days, these things seemed as immutable as the law of gravity. So at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (838+ words) The following is an excerpt from Bonnie Kristian’s new book, In Defense of Evangelicalism. The Week hired me for my politics, but my faith soon came in handy too. I was the only visibly practicing evangelical on the writing staff,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (300+ words) For these and other authors hoping for the end of populism, the term itself is but another word for fascism. And yet there was a time when many hopeful observers perceived populism as a medium of democracy. “Populism is the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) The advent of artificial intelligence has done more than just push the frontier of the digital age; it’s opened questions about consciousness, labor, and what it means to be human. Such far-reaching implications demand sustained inquiry. The popularity of Pope…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (409+ words) When Greg and Tammy discovered groups for estranged parents, they were startled to learn that others had been vilified with the same language they’d heard from Alice. Parents described a similarly surreal and often swift unraveling during which they were…...