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Why Conservatives Keep Bending the Knee to Gay Rights

Clement Harrold

Buoyed by the successful Bud Light boycott and Target’s removal of Pride-themed merchandise due to customer backlash, many conservatives…

Rooting Out the Weeds

Megan Basham

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How Assisted Suicide Destroys the Loved Ones Left Behind

Jonathon Van Maren

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First Things: The Standard-Bearer for Orthodoxy

R. R. Reno

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In Defense of the Philosopher King

Esmé Partridge

He’s a sponsor of esoteric philosophy, a patron of traditional arts, and an ardent layer of hedgerows.…

Anti-Zionism Goes Woke

Cole S. Aronson

The No-State Solution:A Jewish Manifestoby daniel boyarinyale university, 200 pages, $30 Like a starving zombie, identity politics…

What ChatGPT Can’t Do

Liel Leibovitz

I’d forgotten nearly everything about my years in school, which, given my mild allergic ­reaction to sclerotic…

Easter Bodies

Peter J. Leithart

The resurrection of Jesus is the center of Christian faith. If Christ is not raised, Paul says,…

Easter and History

George Weigel

Once upon a time, before the Cuisinart of advanced educational thinking reduced history, geography, and civics to…

Briefly Noted — 4/23

Various

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by andrea wulf knopf, 512 pages,…

What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023

Editors

Mark Bauerlein Contributing Editor Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education has an unfortunate pertinence to 2023 America, at least to the…

Taking the Founders at Their Word

Brad Littlejohn

The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics:Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Foundingby kody w.…

Gatekeeping for the Barbarians

Justin Lee

Gatekeepers serve an invaluable function in a healthy society. At their best, they ensure institutional competence, even…

The Duchess Who Shaped the Fate of France

Bronwen Catherine McShea

The following is excerpted from Bronwen McShea’s new historical biography, La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de…

Pray for Kate Forbes

Carl R. Trueman

On February 15, the radically progressive Nicola Sturgeon announced she would resign as first minister of Scotland.…