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Venice in Threes
For years, I’ve highlighted the triple structure of Merchant of Venice: Three romances, three plots (casket, bond,…
Putin, the Pope and Steve Bannon
Buzzfeed has posted a transcript of a 2014 talk that Trump strategist Steve Bannon gave to a…
Every Campus Has a Safe Space Already
With the election of Donald Trump, the cry for safe spaces has intensified. Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro…
Poetry and Popery
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: 1:34 Poetry, we are told, has gone viral on…
Reply to Carl Trueman
Carl Trueman’s review of The End of Protestantism was published in the December 2016 issue of First…
What We’ve Been Reading—11.18.16
Alexi Sargeant: On my honeymoon in Venice and Rome, I read Crosstalk, the latest novel from scintillating…
Is the Religious Right Dead or Alive?
Before November 8, numerous voices suggested that the Religious Right was in its death throes and that…
Calvinist Spirits
Whatever their later American heirs thought of alcoholic beverages, the Reformers were lovers of beer and wine.…
Death of White Christian America?
Is Trump’s election the death rattle of white Christian America? Philip Jenkins doesn’t think so. It’s true…
American Infrastructure
In his history of American lighthouses (Brilliant Beacons), Eric Jay Dolin describes mid-19th century conflicts over the…
Social Sources of Reformation
James Davison Hunter calls attention to the urban setting of the Reformation (To Change the World, 65):…
Preaching to Kings
Early medieval evangelists had theological reasons for targeting their evangelistic efforts to kings. Kings were heads of…
Girard’s Achievement
Gil Bailie notes in his recently published God’s Gamble (25, 27) that modern thinkers have often pointed…
Natural gessa
In a critique of Locke’s theory of consent (and more extreme varieties), Stephen RL Clark (Civil Peace…
African Emigration?
African immigrants to the US are preparing to leave in the wake of Trump’s victory, reports Quartz.…
