The Pathologies of Precision Medicine
Paul Scherz
We would do well to challenge the headlong adoption of predictive medicine.
The Vast Dechurching and the Paradox of Christianity’s Decline
Firmin DeBrabander
Christians will soon be a minority here, which was for most of this nation’s history unthinkable.
Real Time
Wilfred M. McClay
Do we really believe that the meaning of our lives comes to us most reliably through a steady immersion in snatches of “real time,” complete with quantified and time-stamped certifications of their “reality”?
The Scandal of America’s Prisons
Leann Davis Alspaugh and John J. Lennon
John J. Lennon, incarcerated journalist, talks about education, censorship, mental health, and rehabilitation.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation
Johann N. Neem
We are living through a time, however, when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.
To Make the World Select for Democracy
John M. Owen IV
Cosmopolitan liberalism has reshaped international institutions and practices.
Body and Soul at Table
Wilfred M. McClay
Food is a strong proof of our animality; it is equally strong evidence of how we transcend it.
Democratic Authority at Century’s End
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The democratic story added the following to the idea of civic order: Through pledges and promises—a social contract or covenant—persons throw in their fortunes with one another. They seek not a perfect world, but a better one. And authority is necessary to its realization.