Culture
The Curious Modernism of Charles Taylor
Matt McManus analyzes philosopher Charles Taylor’s account of modernity—unpacking both the contributions and limits of Taylor’s work.
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Blue Mass Matters
Klaus Yoder profiles Law and Order Catholicism and points towards a non-dualistic vision of faith and safety.
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The Church Belongs to the Streets
Christopher Cruz recounts the history of the Young Lords and how their activism calls Christians to use our political power for the many.
Christian Right
A Review of Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen
Matt McManus reviews Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change and critiques the autocratic and aristocratic postliberal future it offers.
Queer Liberation
Remoralizing Sex
Christine Emba’s recent book attempts to diagnose the malaise of contemporary sex culture. But her persistent avoidance of queer experience and theory, as well as an insufficient analysis of capitalism, thwarts her attempt at a new sexual ethic beyond consent.
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The Political Theology of Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman’s ideas continue to exercise a profound influence on our political and economic imagination. On the sixtieth anniversary of Capitalism and Freedom, Adam Kotsko explores the uncanny relationship between Friedman’s neoliberalism and Christian theology.
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass’ famous Independence Day address took a rhetorical scalpel to the lofty self-image and founding texts of America. With political and religious fervor, he drove home the contradiction between republican values and chattel slavery.
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The Only Way Out Is Through
In this exhausted political moment, a reactionary antipolitics is ascendent — one that looks to “traditional” aesthetic and religious pursuits as an antidote to the spiritual dead-end of conventional “woke” liberalism and free-market conservatism.
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The Predator Class is Hungry for a Post-Roe World
From gendered exclusions to the explicitly carceral capitalism of sharecropping, the predator class squeezed profit from precarity. It is one lesson they have not forgotten despite their erasure of slavery and its afterlives from public memory.
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Gays Behaving Badly
A new book from the creators of the Bad Gays podcast explores the morally problematic lives of queer people from ancient to modern times. What unites these figures isn’t their “transgressiveness” but their persistent refusal of solidarity.