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Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

The Long Defeat of History

Tolkien’s hope for the entropy of ages.

Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

Meaning in Decline

The surprising influence of premillennial eschatology on American culture.

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Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

The Conversion of Public Intellectuals

Two pathways.

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Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

The Better Benedict Option

Insights from the Black Church and the Black intellectual tradition.

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Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

Why, Actually, Did Jesus Walk Among Us?

Planting the seed of a new humanity.

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Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

The Possibilities and Perils of Populism

A working-class perspective on the fragile American dream.

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Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

Soul Work for the End of the World

On finding life in the seven deadly sins.

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Sep 5, 2024 Essay Are We Really in Decline?

Building a Future in the Face of the Apocalypse

How certainty that the world will end is reason for hope.

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Aug 22, 2024 Essay

Luigi Giussani’s Vision

Encounter and relationship trump rigidity and conformity.

Aug 15, 2024 Essay

Was Bolshevism a Religion?

The Bolsheviks were atheists, but their outlook is steeped in Christian tradition and literature.

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The Long Defeat of History

Meaning in Decline

The Conversion of Public Intellectuals

The Better Benedict Option

Why, Actually, Did Jesus Walk Among Us?

The Possibilities and Perils of Populism

Soul Work for the End of the World

Building a Future in the Face of the Apocalypse

Luigi Giussani’s Vision

Was Bolshevism a Religion?

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