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Editors’ Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Editors’ Note: This is an excerpt from Breaking Babel: How a Mysterious Biblical Story Can Help Christians Survive the AI Revolution by Mark T.

I guess nobody wants to be a simp, but does anyone want to be a gentleman?

Antisemitism is back.

About a century and a half ago, Nietzsche famously heralded the “death of God,” which he took to mean that God had become “unbelievable.”

Last month I had the pleasure of attending Princeton’s Constitution Day lecture, given by Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar.

Pro-life messages often center on the humanity and dignity of the unborn.

A new anthology of essays, After DEI?

In July, something happened that spooked the entire tech industry.

What to make of recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), in which field there seems to be something noteworthy happening on almost a daily basis?

In 2009 at Ford Hood in Texas, Nidal Hasan killed twelve of his fellow soldiers and one civilian, and wounded more than thirty other people.

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The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) recently confirmed that “transgender men who have given birth can access statutory maternity leave.”

Over the past few years, an overwhelming amount of empirical research has shown the harmful effects of screens on learning, particularly for young children.

Recent actions by U.S.

Seminary students are warned against the dangers of “illegitimate totality transfer” (ITT) when interpreting the meaning of biblical texts from their original languages.

It’s no secret that online sports gambling is a serious problem, draining the coffers and harming the prospects of young men.

In July 2026, one of Germany’s most prominent politicians, Jens Spahn, announced that he and his husband had become parents.

It is impossible to read new books by former vice president Mike Pence and the current holder of that office, J.

I was due to be a Gen X-er.

The late conservative icon William F.

This essay is the winner of the 2026 Fidelity Month high school essay contest.

Robert Carle’s recent review in Public Discourse of Paul Osterman’s Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment summarizes Osterman’s argument that, over the course of the last century, companies have changed the terms of employment in America, m…

If Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster treatment of Homer’s Odyssey is any indication, the healing of trauma is at the top of the American mind.

You don’t have to look hard to find alarm about high U.S. government deficits and debt.

In 1981, two men entered Congress who would over time become the chief architects of modern U.S. religious freedom policy.

The title of James Patterson’s and Thomas Howes’s book Why Postliberalism Failed is not inspired by a belief that the contemporary American postliberal movement (made most famous in Patrick Deneen’s book Why Liberalism Failed) has collapsed.

Few ideas have so dominated twentieth-century political thought as modernization theory.

Author’s note: Professor Holloway is a friend, and thanks me for some conversations we had before he began writing this book.

Just outside the French Quarter of New Orleans, on the corner of Basin and St.

Earlier this month, I read an article at The Atlantic about an inexpensive Chinese-made e-book device that is hardly any larger than a credit card.

On August 12, 2026, Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab reported a striking divergence in the early-career labor market.

Over recent years, a number of books have offered a delightful path into exploring the development of European thought in the twentieth century.

America saved the Jews many times over.

It began with the factory farms.

Every design choice in the modern attention economy (the infinite scroll, push notifications, the autoplay feature on streaming services) rests on a single premise: repetition is friction, and friction is the enemy.

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV writes: “When subsidiarity is not linked to solidarity, it ends up becoming merely the protection of particular interests; when solidarity is not supported by subsidiarity, it degenerates into a form of welfare that d…

In 1888, George Eastman marketed the Kodak camera with the memorable advertising promise: “You press the button, we do the rest.”

This year marks the 250th anniversary not only of the United States but also of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.

This piece was originally published on September 5, 2017.

The technical economic issues and questions surrounding artificial intelligence are myriad.

Pope John Paul II once said: “the continuing success of American democracy depends on the degree to which each new generation … makes its own the moral truths on which the Founding Fathers staked the future of [the] Republic.”

The constitutional debate over social media bans seems to be moving away from regulating speech and content toward scrutinizing product designs and their resulting harms.

Studies suggest that almost half of American young adults ages 18–29 have used a dating app.

When the presidents of the world’s episcopal conferences gather for a week in Rome in October, at Pope Leo’s invitation, it will mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of Amoris Laetitia, his predecessor’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the…