Conventional “charismatic” speech, in service of the Zeitgeist
Richard Stivers on how the rhetoric of democracy invites tyranny
All how, no why
Langdon Winner summarizes a key theme in Jacques Ellul’s writing about technology
The dismissal of standards as cultural imperialism
Rochelle Gurstein on the loss of “principled debate about the quality and character of our common world”
In praise of childish virtues
Agnes Repplier recalls the knowledge that mattered most in her childhood
A foretaste of the kingdom of God
Oliver O’Donovan on the sovereignty of love
Knowledge transformed by love
David K. Naugle on the reordered thinking of the redeemed
The Bible’s “warfare worldview” and our “worldview warfare”
David K. Naugle on the high stakes in sustaining the truth about reality
The restless vanity of the untrammeled self
Sociologist Daniel Bell on the rise of “the idea that experience in and of itself was the supreme value”
The moral imperative of having fun
Daniel Bell on the moral imperative of having fun
The legitimizing role of hedonism
Daniel Bell on what replaced the Protestant Ethic