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Critical race theory is flawed. Banning it is far worse. 

The brand of politics Trump unleashed shows every sign of shaping an era

Love of God and neighbor are at stake in the battles over liberal learning

Intellectual integrity requires a different politics from what the Kansas GOP has on offer

The pursuit of equity threatens to inflame divisions. Equality promises a better way.

The world needs accountants, businesspeople, doctors and nurses, engineers, and physical therapists. But we also need professionally-trained men and women who know how to engage the world in a thoughtful and responsible way. 

A late antique bishop forces a rethinking of the Texas abortion law

A stubborn and costly credulity among Christians has deep roots

Twenty years on, Nickel and Dimed still reveals our blindness—and its author’s as well

Change has been one of the few constants in the pop star’s meandering religious odyssey. What does it all mean?

A class divide over education portends danger for a democratic people

Historiographical intervention may animate the profession’s ambitious social climbers. But is it winning any readers in the general public?

Nature knows the secret of rejuvenation. Can we learn it, too?

If libertarianism has recently united these old foes, maybe opposition to it can, too

Beneath the Claremont Institute’s turn to Trumpism lie yet more troubling turns

Winners write history. But what if we occasionally used Constitution Day to think about what might have been? What if we told the story of the 1780s from the perspective of the losers?

If personal responsibility is so great, why isn’t it working? 

In his music, Gregory Porter shows how far gratitude and respect can take us

If infirmity shadows us, other kinds of presence do, too

Trumpism reminds us that stupidity is an enduring threat