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Saving a Liberal Order from Liberal Philosophy

In recent years, Christians across the political spectrum have grown increasingly skeptical of liberalism. Postliberal movements argue that liberal democracy is not merely insufficient but fundamentally hostile to Christianity itself. According to this view, neutrality is a myth, liberal rights are corrosive of virtue, and Christians must choose between faithfulness and liberal politics. Continue Reading...

AI and the Return of Architectonic Labor

The free enterprise system’s greatest prophets saw the trade-off from the beginning. The division of labor generates unprecedented wealth while subjecting workers to menial labor that diminishes our personal and political capacities. Continue Reading...

Pornocracy and the Limits of Legal Limits

It’s not often that you find a cause that unites a progressive like feminist professor Catharine MacKinnon of the University of Michigan Law School and conservative Catholics and evangelicals. A crusade to pass anti-porn ordinances and statutes was just that cause in the early 1980s. Continue Reading...

A Very British America

In the popular imagination, at least, the American Revolution has become synonymous with anti-monarchism. Left- and right-wingers seek to drape their ideological causes in patriotic slogans and images that could be taken wholesale from Thomas Paine’s radical democratic pamphlet Common Sense. Continue Reading...

The Science of God, the God of Science

Philosophy, Aristotle observed, begins in wonder. Too often today, however, philosophy begins in arid formulas that look more like math equations than like curiosity about the great questions of life—“Does God exist?” Continue Reading...

His Stylus Was Mightier Than His Sword

Sometime in the late 340s B.C. in Athens, a feud between two powerful men, Apollodoros and Stephanos, culminated in the last of a series of lawsuits that the two had been bringing against each other for the better part of a decade. Continue Reading...

Beijing’s Battle Against God and the Chinese People

The grander a dictator’s ambitions, the more likely he is to see religion as a threat. So it is with Xi Jinping, who has ruled the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with increasing ruthlessness since November 2012, when he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Continue Reading...