The Vast Dechurching and the Paradox of Christianity’s Decline
Firmin DeBrabander
Christians will soon be a minority here, which was for most of this nation’s history unthinkable.
History Bedeviled
Paul Nedelisky
Were the signs and wonders of the early modern mystics divine or diabolical?
The Humor Is Almost Lost on Us
Martha Bayles
Instead of satire, which aims at improvement, we have snark.
All the Little Data
Nicholas Carr
When we communicate using little data, we’re speaking the language of robots.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Body and Soul at Table
Wilfred M. McClay
Food is a strong proof of our animality; it is equally strong evidence of how we transcend it.
A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation
Johann N. Neem
We are living through a time, however, when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.
Remembering Henry Pleasants
Martha Bayles
What Pleasants found in the Afro-American idiom was a body of music intended to comfort the afflicted.
Democratic Authority at Century’s End
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The democratic story added the following to the idea of civic order: Through pledges and promises—a social contract or covenant—persons throw in their fortunes with one another. They seek not a perfect world, but a better one. And authority is necessary to its realization.