A new book examines the impact of the decade with engaging prose but less than honest assessments of the moral costs.
Tag: Christianity
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What the Editors Are Reading: May 2025
Short reviews of 'Suicide of a Superpower' by Patrick J. Buchanan, and 'The Genius of Christianity' by Viscount De Chateaubriand
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Rod Dreher Wants to Be MAGA’s Conscience Now
The famous NeverTrumper spent the better part of the last decade decrying Trump and his supporters. Now he pretends to offer friendly advice. It ought to be ignored.
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After Francis, Catholics Need a Populist Pope
Francis was meant to bridge the Catholic Church’s factions in the age of globalism while upholding core teachings. But globalism did not resonate as expected.
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JD & JC
The vice president’s now famous remarks in Europe remind us that our civilization depends upon our commitment to the Lord and savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
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Citing Scripture for a Progressive Purpose
'The Progressives’ Bible' shows how leftists over the ages—from abolitionists to abortionists—have distorted scripture to build a rhetorical foundation for their political causes and movements.
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Let’s Declare Independence from the ‘National Cathedral’ Hoax
Congress should repeal the so-called National Cathedral’s congressional charter and all such meaningless charters.
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Jan. 6, 2021: A Day That Will Live in Hymnody
The resistance to tyranny is something to sing about.
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Tech Brahmins Should Look at Indian Dysfunction First
Before criticizing America and American workers, people like Vivek Ramaswamy should consider the ramifications of importing India’s dysfunctional culture.
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‘Seeing’: A Christ-Filled Jazz Record
An interview with jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen about the influences that converged to help him create his masterpiece.
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A Yuletide Note: Jesus, the Asylum Seeker?
Contemporary attempts to paint Jesus Christ as a slighted migrant are politically, not biblically, inspired.
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Old Saint Knick
Washington Irving’s contribution to America’s celebration of Christmas may have been the first blow against the religion of “woke.”
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The Christmas Season Is a Time to Recall the Finitude of Our Days
It is not morbid thinking to remember that Christmas is a call to love one another as we reflect on our mortality.
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The Last Ugly Biden Christmas
We can be thankful this Christmas knowing it is Jill Biden’s last year to decorate the White House for the holidays.
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‘Mary’: A Beautiful, Realistic Film about the Blessed Mother
Director D. J. Caruso has created a masterful work with a relatable portrayal for faithful and curious audiences alike.
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Kamala Harris’s Contrived Candidacy
The manufactured identity of Kamala Harris is typical of how our elites hollow out all our most valuable institutions.
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Elon Musk Fights the Leviathan With Free Speech and Spaceships
Musk could have taken the easy road and gone along with the progressive agenda. Instead, he’s using his wealth and power to push back against the government.
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Whose is the Wrong Rally?
By telling people shouting “Jesus Is Lord” that they didn’t belong at her rally, Kamala Harris demonstrated the deep divide over religion between the parties.
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On Not Forgiving or Forgetting 9/11
You do not do something like this to my people and expect me ever to get over it.
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Becoming by Beholding
An important new book demonstrates the ways imagination is essential to Christianity.
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Christianity over Buddhism, Objectively
The life-affirming nature of Christianity seeks to overcome death while Buddhism, properly understood, embraces it.
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‘Zulu’ at 60
The film savaged by today’s woke critics as a key text for “white nationalists” is, in fact, an outstanding recreation of a heroic and adventurous past with enduring popular appeal.
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The Bad Theology of Our Israel Über Alles Foreign Policy
Christian dispensationalism explains the fervor with which some in the Republican Party support the interests of the nation of Israel as if they were always our own.
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Suicide Redux: A Psychiatrist Responds
More psychiatrists will not solve the existential crisis of our society. A solution must lie elsewhere.
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The Case for Ben Carson and the Return of American Goodness
As the vice-presidential nominee, Dr. Ben Carson would benefit Donald Trump enormously—both personally and politically.
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Aaron Wolf, Memory Eternal
Remembering the significant contributions of former Chronicles executive editor Aaron Wolf on the fifth anniversary of his passing.
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A Constitution Unburdened by Consent
Because we have unburdened our political rhetoric from authentic Christianity and our Constitution from the necessity of reflecting our consent, we are burdened instead by empty language and forms now used to enslave us.
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Trump’s Not a ‘True Conservative’—He’s a Winner
Amoral populism is the future, whether we like it or not.
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MLK Redivivus
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not bring the races closer together; and the legacy he left behind has been one of erasing more and more of our national heritage whenever it does not fit a progressively more radical leftist agenda.
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Will Africa Save America?
Conservatives are right to take heart from Christianity’s growth in Africa. Yet if the civilization that Christianity created in Europe and America cannot survive here, the prospects for Christian civilization anywhere are bleak.
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Answering Pop Music’s Malaise this Christmas
A culture is characterized by its public rites. Western culture today shows itself most clearly in popular song and what we hear is in need of an antidote.
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Longing for the Sacred
Though his portrayal of the Catholic saint is superficial at best, Padre Pio director Abel Ferrara's at least accomplish something, accidentally, by leading the film's star onto a redemptive path.
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Curing Cultural Amnesia
Wokeism has spread widely, but wokeism’s triumph is not irreversible. Indeed, the necessary first step of subverting wokeism may well be the sufficient final step as well.
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Christianity Today Editor Russell Moore: ‘We Have No King But Caesar!’
Russell Moore’s recent editorial about the indictment of Donald Trump is a passive-aggressive attack on the former president and his supporters.
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Creating a sense of moral obligation to outsiders is one of Christianity’s singular achievements. But the full genius of historical Christianity was shown by its ability to do this without falling into a suicidal universalism.
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Greatness of Heart in Manzoni’s “The Betrothed”
Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed is an exemplar of artistic accomplishment, full of true heroism and the struggle between good and evil in singular souls, as well as a shrewd and profoundly political vision.
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The West on the Precipice: A Warning and a Hope
Traditional Christians should unite against the satanic vision of liberal-democratic nirvana, which continually threatens the West.