New book says the faith provides room for disagreement, nuance–even flexibility.

Israel’s timely You Tube gambit against Tehran would be frightening–if it were true.

His problem is not the persistence of racism, but with the inability of atheism to offer hope

The risk is losing what made the city so strangely beautiful, even during the bad years.

Missing the point of all ritual life: to decenter the Self from itself

‘Few shared values exist’ says traditionalist Catholic columnist. He’s wrong

Alas for Jeff Goldberg’s Atlantic: a magazine is a terrible thing to waste

In a TAC exclusive, the Kentucky senator warns the new AUMF is a massive abdication by the legislative branch.

The Secular-Orthodox culture wars have come to America—that’s bad news for a party that takes Jewish-American votes for granted.

Stunning words of rebuke to Pope Francis from the Dutch primate

But you’d be hard-pressed to find one of these ‘studies’ that actually says so.

The Constitution should in theory protect your private information. But a little-known legal doctrine has allowed the feds in.

Southern Baptists have a problem

From Hannah Arendt to Mary Wollstonecraft, here’s what our staff and writers are reading this week.

It needs to refurbish itself for a new era. But how to go about doing that?

These are the crimes that the U.S. is aiding and abetting as long as it provides military assistance to the Saudis and their allies.

Back then our world seemed perfect. So why did we rage against it?

He should ignore whatever subpoenas come his way and give no quarter to those trying to destroy his presidency.

Buildings need dignified hats.

Haspel’s inclination to withdraw is a sign that the pressure on the Trump administration over her past involvement in torture is having the desired effect.

A conversation between Patrick Deneen and Ross Douthat

Giuliani’s remarks should remind us how dangerous it is if this cult and its allies have influence over U.S. policy towards Iran.

In attempting to discredit advocates of the deal by going after them personally, the Trump administration confirms how pitifully weak the arguments against the JCPOA itself truly are.

The crisis in Yemen is entirely man-made, and the Saudi coalition bears a huge share of the responsibility for creating it.

If the administration persists in demanding something that North Korea won’t concede, they are setting themselves up for failure.

The joylessness of materialist sex

Want to know why we failed in Afghanistan? Ask a soldier who was tasked with solving everything.

What other job has you interviewing haunted house attendants and covering overturned potato trucks?

Irish voters are almost certain to repeal their constitution’s prohibitions on abortion. What then?

Guarding against an emotivist propaganda campaign for sexualized children