Beginning this week you will see that we are increasing and restructuring the online content of Comment. Following the A-B-C-D structure of our 2008 manifesto, Comment Online will now feature contributions from regular columnists and others in four broad areas:
Arts and the Academy;
Business and Technology;
Culture and Politics;
Delights and Comforts.
We will also continue our popular feature promoting artists, 1,000 Words. It would be wonderful to hear your responses to this week's columns and art at our Facebook page!
Feature Essays
If Wishing Made it So: Teaching Students to Make Change
May 14, 2012
by Gloria Stronks and Julia Stronks
Parents and teachers want children to have the skills to make a difference. But what can we teach to help them survive their teen years, 20s, and 30s with convictions and character intact?
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Recent Feature Essays
If Wishing Made it So: Teaching Students to Make Change
May 14, 2012
by Gloria Stronks and Julia Stronks
Parents and teachers want children to have the skills to make a difference. But what can we teach to help them survive their teen years, 20s, and 30s with convictions and character intact?
Dec 31:
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Reviews & Opinions
American Heretics
May 23, 2012
by Kevin Flatt
While too benevolent, and even-handed to a fault, Ross Douthat's Bad Religion offers diagnosis and prescriptions for American Christianity that are spot on.
May 22:
Do Not Open—No User Serviceable Parts Inside
by David Greusel
May 18:
Morality, markets, and Michael Sandel
by Nick Spencer
Recent Reviews & Opinions
American Heretics
May 23, 2012
by Kevin Flatt
While too benevolent, and even-handed to a fault, Ross Douthat's Bad Religion offers diagnosis and prescriptions for American Christianity that are spot on.
Dec 31:
by
Dec 31:
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Recent Interviews
Saying "there is not enough time" is heresy
May 2, 2012
by Stephanie Gehring
SIX QUESTIONS . . . The new culture I am making is an attempt to say hold still and look at this.
Dec 31:
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Interviews
Saying "there is not enough time" is heresy
May 2, 2012
by Stephanie Gehring
SIX QUESTIONS . . . The new culture I am making is an attempt to say hold still and look at this.
Our culture does not know how to deal with legacies. We either treat the dead with some combination of awe and fear, or we think of our forebears as unworthy of remembrance, to be cast behind our own pursuits and discoveries.
Christians, however, can take a different tack. Ours is a historical faith, containing gifts each generation must re-open—some to be treasured, some to be viewed and sent back.
In this issue of Comment, we reject both our tendencies to ignore and to idolize the past. Instead, we seek to draw the good out of legacies, as we acknowledge that all legacies east of Eden will always be, at best, mixed.
How will you respond to the gifts of these legacies in your own life and work?
Gideon Strauss is a senior fellow with the Center for Public Justice, where he previously served as Chief Executive Officer and editor of Capital Commentary. Before joining the...
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Beginning this week you will see that we are increasing and restructuring the online content of Comment. Following the A-B-C-D structure of our 2008 manifesto, Comment Online will now feature contributions from regular columnists and others in four broad areas:
We will also continue our popular feature promoting artists, 1,000 Words. It would be wonderful to hear your responses to this week's columns and art at our Facebook page!
Parents and teachers want children to have the skills to make a difference. But what can we teach to help them survive their teen years, 20s, and 30s with convictions and character intact?
Parents and teachers want children to have the skills to make a difference. But what can we teach to help them survive their teen years, 20s, and 30s with convictions and character intact?
While too benevolent, and even-handed to a fault, Ross Douthat's Bad Religion offers diagnosis and prescriptions for American Christianity that are spot on.
While too benevolent, and even-handed to a fault, Ross Douthat's Bad Religion offers diagnosis and prescriptions for American Christianity that are spot on.
SIX QUESTIONS . . . The new culture I am making is an attempt to say hold still and look at this.
SIX QUESTIONS . . . The new culture I am making is an attempt to say hold still and look at this.
Current print issue
March 2012: Legacies
Our culture does not know how to deal with legacies. We either treat the dead with some combination of awe and fear, or we think of our forebears as unworthy of remembrance, to be cast behind our own pursuits and discoveries.
Christians, however, can take a different tack. Ours is a historical faith, containing gifts each generation must re-open—some to be treasured, some to be viewed and sent back.
In this issue of Comment, we reject both our tendencies to ignore and to idolize the past. Instead, we seek to draw the good out of legacies, as we acknowledge that all legacies east of Eden will always be, at best, mixed.
How will you respond to the gifts of these legacies in your own life and work?