By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – May 24, 2024 Politically, they’re looking more independent-minded all the time. The progressive journalist Thomas Frank wrote a much-discussed book in 2004 titled “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” Right now, some other like-minded journalist might be thinking of writing a book called “What’s the Matter with People of Color?” For Democrats, the presidential polling...

A new study reveals a significant shift in religious attitudes among Gen Zers in the United Kingdom, those born in 1997 or later, suggesting a potential revival of faith and increased spiritual questioning.  

In October 2007 I delivered a series of lectures on the subject of “Homosexuality, the Church, and Society.” The lectures were held at the Booth Playhouse in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in the heart of Charlotte, North Carolina, and they attracted considerable attention from the local media.  

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com  – May 16, 2024 The sooner we can talk about this poisonous ideology in the past tense, the better. It was a great racket while it lasted, but so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have spent the last year in retreat — compelling the practitioners of discriminatory “social justice” to conduct a flailing rearguard...

By: Jessica Schwalb – nationalreview.com – May 16, 2024 The main thing I’ve learned from the events of the past month is that the protest mindset disinclines students to learn from one another.  A black mask and the hood of a Choate sweatshirt helped conceal her identity. But her eyes were familiar.  “You don’t need to do this,” I said to...

Progressive gender ideology insists that boys can be girls and that men have a right to invade women-only spaces. This is an assault on truth, on the Imago Dei, and on women and girls. The best way to meet this assault is with the power of prayer. Consider The Biden Administration recently announced new changes to Title IX, which was...

“I live in a rather special world,” Miss Kael said, continuing: “I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”

By Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – May 10, 2024 A taxonomy of post-religious conservatisms. You’re reading the Ross Douthat newsletter, for Times subscribers only.  The columnist reflects on culture and politics, but mostly culture. Get it in your inbox. During the 2016 Republican campaign, watching Donald Trump shoulder his way past his more pious rivals for the nomination, I remarked on the...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – May 10, 2024 Young people who smoked marijuana in the 1960s were seen as part of the counterculture. Now the cannabis culture is mainstream. A 2022 surveysponsored by the National Institutes of Health found that 28.8% of Americans age 19 to 30 had used marijuana in the preceding 30 days—more than three times as...

We come from two sides of the political spectrum, write Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes. But both of us agree that the Antisemitism Awareness Act is profoundly misguided.