What happened to US politics?
John Ganz explores the gritty political and cultural trends that erupted in the early 1990s and set the stage for the present.
A pastor’s disappointments
Amy Butler’s memoir is a story of relentless striving and continued failures. In other words, it’s a story of the church.
The Court’s embrace of the divine right of presidents
In the Trump v. United States oral arguments, the conservative justices sought what Justice Gorsuch called “a rule for the ages”—one that doesn’t impair the sovereign grandeur of presidential power.
What comes after clergy self-care?
I didn’t need more candles or journaling. I needed solidarity with others.
The Crown abdicates without a successor
My viewing experience recapitulated a running theme of the show: the question, Why are we doing this?
Why is progressive activism so ineffective?
Fredrik deBoer explains why the mobilization of 2020 produced so few concrete gains.
The genealogy of selfhood
From the Renaissance to Kim Kardashian, Tara Isabella Burton tells a story of limitless, ruthless self-creation.
Fantasy and reality after Roe
One can imagine an anti-abortion politics that started with economic solidarity or righteous fury at male sexual license. But the thought experiment only demonstrates its own absurdity.
Under Elon Musk’s authority
Doing church on social media is not like standing in the public square. It’s more like putting ourselves under a form of sovereignty.