Current

A guide for the perplexed

Clashing appropriations of an ancient symbol underscore the extent of our contemporary crisis

Close the eyes of the tourist. Open the eyes of the soul.

If the 1619 Project is bad history why won’t more historians say so?

If we have the choice, why not make things beautiful?

It’s sexual difference that makes possible the art, contends a former Olympian

Hail to the weed that rides the coattails of human ambition (and of Star Wars, too)

In praise of dissent

It seems Chris Christie now carries the mantle of the 1990s Christian Right

The university does not exist to generate talking points

Who doesn’t need a well-furnished room for reflection?

An anxious, heartbreaking decade looks better at the movies

Baseball cards reveal a timely truth: innocence endures

It’s an epic in the making

Wendell Berry’s agrarian vision and the life of a pediatric surgeon

The sublimity—and absurdity—of air travel

On the matter of public schooling, David French mistakes state authority for religious liberty

In the midst of civil war, an unusual alternative changed a nation

There’s more than one way to play with time

The crisis of leadership in contemporary religion and politics is rooted not in hypocrisy but in nihilism