George Saunders’ novel is a vital foil to Thornton Wilder’s famous play
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The End of Roe: Two Years Later
In the absence of a unifying vision, turmoil takes its toll
SUMMERING: Flunking Summer
To steward time well requires a crucial admission: We do not control it
SUMMERING: The Man Himself
Love big. Love hard. With risks intact.
Race, Class, and Religion in a Northern New Jersey Town
I had no idea ‘born-again Christians’ were living in my midst
SUMMERING: Follow the Tease
On the return of ‘warmth, bloom, and song’
Loyalty, Not Merit; Confidence, Not Data
The fight for common sense in everyday life, after social science
What Tortured Poets Might Teach Us
More than just how to shake it off, it turns out
Shakespeare’s Worst Plays
When the Bard was off his game
A Childhood on the Periphery
Growing up New Jersey working class in the 1970s
The Unmysterious Russian Soul
Westerners are Russocentric—as Ukrainians know all too well
Bring the Family
At 71, John Hiatt’s still showing us how it’s done
What Christians Might Fear from Trump
Remember: Trump doesn’t do coalitions
Hamlet and Trump
Something is rotten in the state of Evangelicalism . . .Â
Catholic Feminists Should Offer Grace to Harrison Butker
The reality of human lives is lost in the rush to judgment
Jacques Ellul: Prophet of the Information Age
Ellul’s death thirty years ago offers a moment to recall his message
The Particulates of Doom
In which dinosaurs, oil, and drilling come together to make fiction happen
Seeking Intellectual Freedom
In an age of echo chambers, where can we encounter views different from our own?
Ties of Sentiment
Notes on a receding shirt line
Growing Up Italian-American
My great-grandfather was a Mediterranean sheepherder who fell in love and came to America for a better life