The disembodied, unreal reality of our digital age threatens to rob us of an authentic existence. A new book offers solutions short of throwing our iPhones in the trash. Read More… Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age makes pelling argument. Its author, Samuel James, asks readers to consider how long it’s been since they’ve checked a phone for notifications, or whether they’re in the habit of checking email while talking with people in person—or checking texts while...

A new book offers concrete solutions to entrenched problems that have contributed to the fragmentation, isolation, and desolation munities across the country. Step one is to start right where you are. Read More… Sociologist Robert Nisbet declared our era to be “singularly weak” in social inventiveness. In a new book on local solutions to America’s social ills, author Seth Kaplan agrees—with some exceptions. “Our modern era is not the first one in which the U.S. has weathered rapid social change,”...

A searingly personal and poignant account of a battle with mental illness and how Word and Liturgy can calm the mind will speak both to sufferers and those who e alongside them. Read More… He knows. This John knows. How? Has he peered down into the bottomless pit in the middle of the Wilderness? Seen the Stranger trapped in a small iron Cage lowered on a long iron chain so far into the darkness that only a pinprick of light...

A collection of essays by New Right thinkers has a lot to say about what is wrong with the “establishment Right” and America itself. But their solutions ironically reflect a neglect of constitutional order that got us in our current state to begin with. Read More… In his introduction essay to Up from Conservatism, a collection of essays by “New Right” authors, editor Arthur Milikh remarks that “the goal of this volume is to correct the trajectory of the Right...

Director Ridley Scott has made a film about Napoleon that will never be described as Napoleonic. The director of such film-fan favorites as Blade Runner, Alien, and Gladiator has apparently met his Waterloo. Read More… Among all art forms, the movies have the greatest propensity to glorify violence, brutality, and savagery of all sorts. Because the medium is inherently kinetic, cinema captures the thrill, terror, and barbarism of battle; and because it is empathetic, cinema trains audiences to identify with...

To whom ought we to be thankful—and for what? Ask Abba Isaac. Read More… Each night, when it’s my turn to tuck in my littlest kids—Erin (5) and Callaghan (3) … and sometimes Aidan (6)—we say the same traditional prayers together: the “Our Father,” the “Axion Estin,” and the Creed. After the Creed, I ask them, “What are you thankful for tonight?” and “Who should we pray for tonight?” They’re always thankful for their mom. They’re usually thankful for each...

A new book offers biblically based arguments for reforming the criminal justice system without succumbing to the Scylla of indifference or the Charybdis of “defund the police” utopianism. Read More… In Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal, Matt Martens has written an indispensable guide for Christians engaging with questions of criminal justice reform. While Dagan and Teles’ Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration had outlined the hopeful story of bipartisan, and even conservative, criminal justice reform in 2016,...

Entrepreneurs of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your quintiles! Read More… Fulton Sheen once remarked that “not over a hundred people” hate the Catholic Church, but “there are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.” The same might be said for free market economics. While attacks on capitalism abound, many of them are in fact critiques not of capitalism but of a misunderstanding of capitalism. That is why every generation...

A prominent Member of Parliament and a Lutheran bishop have been found not guilty of “hate speech” for publicly quoting Scripture and confessing their Christian faith in Finland. But is their trial really over? Read More… In Finland, a prominent politician and a Lutheran bishop have been acquitted of hate crimes for the second time in as many years. On November 14, 2023, the Helsinki Court of Appeals issued its unanimous decision that Finnish Member of Parliament Dr. Päivi Räsänen...

Philosopher Sebastian Morello makes the case for the political establishment of religion. Has the time e for conservatives to agree that this may be the only way out of our current moral morass? Read More… The 20th century was an outlier in the history of the human race. For the first time, secularizing movements spanned the globe. In many places, they succeeded by suppressing the political expression of religion. The great religions lost their capacity to direct culture and society....