As Pop Culture Lures Kids Toward The Occult, Neutrality Toward Witchcraft Isn’t Enough

We should help young people experience how the promises God offers them far surpass the false promises of witchcraft and ungodly spirits. In a recent New York Times editorial, Ross Douthat called into question the naive, materialist readings of the new statue of a female pagan deity that was installed outside the New York courthouse. … Read more

The Implications of the 6th of January

Whatever develops or doesn’t on the right, at the very least the whole post-election drama, the wave of conspiracizing and Stop-the-Stealing of which the riot was just the crest, helped push us a little bit away from stalemate and gridlock in one way: Not by establishing an armed QAnon terror group as a permanent feature … Read more

What Explains the Movie Critics’ Loathing of Hillbilly Elegy?

In the summer of 2016, I went into a bookstore in Maine looking for a book that I thought my wife would like to read — a memoir about growing up as the heir to rural Appalachian culture and passing from that world into the gilded precincts of the meritocracy, written by a guy I … Read more

The Case for One More Child

In his 2013 book, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, Jonathan V. Last described “car seat economics” – the expense and burden of car seats for ever-older kids, the penalties imposed on parents who flout the requirements – as an example of the countless “tiny evolutions” that make large families rarer. Obviously car seats … Read more