In mid-September, I joined a lunch with the leaders of a village in Syunik, southern Armenia. The president of neighboring Azerbaijan has been threatening for several years to “return” this region to ...

The editors discuss the NatCon in Jerusalem, the scandal at Cornell University and its broader implications, and whether AI could ever be considered to be conscious. War abroad. Socialists on the rise ...

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

It used to be that if you died horribly and honorably and happened to be a person of note, your legacy was secure. Amelia Earhart, John F. Kennedy, and Kurt Cobain were served well by their untimely ...

How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write it yourself, or would you have a team of lawyers or a public relations firm write it for you? Or would ...

Many conversations about artificial intelligence end in a stalemate: A sentiment like “ChatGPT is awful because kids… ...

The problem with the evangelical elite is that there isn’t one. All too few evangelical Christians hold senior positions in the culture-shaping domains of American society. Evangelicals don’t run ...

The family of Anita Bryant (1940–2024) only recently announced that the singer and Christian activist died on December 16. The belated family obituary that broke the news notably made no mention of ...

More than two centuries ago, Søren Kierkegaard attacked the established church of his native Denmark. He denounced it for encouraging outward “Christian” behavior rather than authentic belief. People ...

Was the First Gulf War a mistake? The historian Paul Schroeder thought the answer was “yes.” In his arresting formulation, Operation Desert Storm was “a just, unnecessary war.” He was hardly the only ...

In the Baptist church of my childhood, we often sang the hymn “He Paid a Debt He Did Not Owe”: He paid a debt he did not owen Christ Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay At the time, I was unaware ...

James Talarico wants to “reclaim Christianity for the left.” That’s the title of the New York Times interview with Talarico—currently running for Senate in Texas—and the phrasing is revealing. One ...