Public Life
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Proud to Be an American?
This July Fourth, you may have attended a local parade. If it was anything like mine, you…
Religious Exemptions Beyond Religious Curiosities?
On July 21, plaintiffs in Kane v. City of New York asked the Supreme Court to review…
The Summer Reading List, 2025 Edition
Some years ago, a friend teaching at a state university told me that he was offering a…
The Crazy Train Is Decommissioned
John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne’s farewell show, performed on July 5, was explicitly patriarchal. His musical descendants—“hard” groups…
Coldplaygate and the Case for Public Judgment
On July 16, Andy Byron, the CEO of a medium-sized software company, attended a Coldplay concert in…
No, Churches Still May Not Endorse Political Candidates
In the latest example of journalists and the online commentariat misstating the nuances of a high-stakes legal…
Abolishing Ourselves
Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the…
A Straight Line to the Pulpit: The Legacy of John MacArthur
In the middle of the twentieth century, with suburbs and churches exploding with intensity, novelist Peter De…
Make Abortion Great Again?
On July Fourth weekend, a photograph made the rounds on social media. Cynthia Nixon, the actress and…
Planned Parenthood Defunded—For Now
In the three years that followed Dobbs, the pro-life movement may have sometimes felt like it was…
The King and the Swarm
The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of…
Hello, Goodbye Christianity
The Beatles were boomers, through and through. Their 1966 record Revolver features—along with paradigm-shifting studio trickery and…
A Eulogy for Bullfighting
Growing up, I had always felt that I was “too sensitive” for bullfighting, and thus opposed it.…
Is Just War Theory Still Relevant?
Conflict in the Middle East brings fundamental questions about just war into the public debate. Yet the…
The Ascension vs. Human Composting
There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh…
