This essay was originally published by First Things on July 11, 2022. After almost a century, what fruit has the conservative distinction between nature and…

Escaping the graceless moral scapegoating of identity politics Editor’s Note: The following is the text of a lecture delivered at Bethlehem College and Seminary on March 31st, 2022. It…

In America, parental rights protect the right of mothers and fathers to use legitimate discretion in raising their children. The government does not allocate parental rights; it recognizes and…

On John W. Kleinig’s Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body “Men despise religion. . . . The cure for this is first to show that religion…

Martin Heidegger promised to make man the Master of Being. Perhaps we should blame Heidegger, not Marx, for putting our culture on the path to decline. The Irish critic…

This article was originally published by City Journal on October 22, 2021. Joe Biden’s administration ushers in a destructive new version of the American regime. What…

From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism This article appeared originally in RealClearPublicAffairs as part of its 1776 Series, which seeks to explain the “major themes defining the American mind.” A…

An extensive literature has emerged in the past decade documenting the Biblical and even rabbinic foundations of the American Revolution, starting with Eric Nelson’s The Hebrew Republic (2011), and including Eran…

What does the Left want with regard to religion in America? Here, as in many other areas, the left seeks not mere reform but revolution. This is not to say…

Many have argued that without God there can be no fixed moral principles. George Orwell’s 1984 goes further, raising the possibility that without God there cannot even be “facts” in…