Is the end of the world drawing nigh? This is the question at the heart of Christopher Beha’s 2020 blockbuster novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. A deranged-looking street preacher appears at the beginning of the novel, predicting the…
For an ancient people, the Romans were atypical in their concern about the moral justification of their wars. Conquest, they believed, was at least potentially nefas (“wicked”) and risked the community’s suffering religious pollution and divine…
The National Constitution Center announced on Monday that the first U.S.-born Pope will receive the Liberty Medal during a public ceremony on July 3 outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S.…
At some point in their economics curriculum, every undergraduate will learn the “guns and butter” model of trade. The idea is simple: Countries have limited resources and can devote them either to military production or to consumer goods. Moving…
President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission held its sixth hearing at the Museum of the Bible on Monday to discuss religious liberty in healthcare and social services. President Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission via executive…
Adapting Merry Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein is practically a tradition in Hollywood. As is the freedom in adapting it: Consider the Universal Monsters’ classic, which turned the original’s well-spoken creation of mad scientist Victor…
Michael S. Rose’s The Subversive Art of a Classical Education: Reclaiming the Mind in an Age of Speed, Screens, and Skill-Drills is the latest addition to the growing genre of books about classical education. Rose combines theory and practice to…
Modern arguments about wealth and inequality often presuppose that Scripture offers little guidance beyond a general call to generosity, after which technocrats may improvise distribution schemes according to political fashion. Consequently,…
If you want to learn about the creative process of the greatest genius of English literature and arguably his greatest tragedy, stay away from this film. If you want to learn about pagan superstition with a feminist inflection, well… Read More……
Was the universe created, and did God create it? It would be wonderful if we could assemble a team of unbiased scientists to examine the evidence and come to a clear conclusion. And at first that’s what I anticipated as I sat down to read God,…
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