The Power, Promise, and Practice of Mentoring

Between 2000 and 2023, the liberal-conservative fissure dividing young men and women in America doubled in size. In that time, the male trend was surprisingly stable. Young women did the heavy lifting, becoming five times more liberal in 2023 than their predecessors...

"There is no more potent tool for rupture than the reconstruction of genesis: by bringing back into view the conflicts and confrontations of the early beginnings and therefore all the discarded possibilities, it retrieves the possibility that things could have been...

There is a word in the Hebrew Bible with dots above it. Not vowel markings, but mysterious, heavy ink dots hovering just above the consonants. In the entire expanse of the Old Testament, scribes placed these puncta extraordinaria over only fifteen specific passages....

As a cultural analyst, I rarely find myself praising contemporary film or television. That is not because good storytelling is impossible today, but because it is increasingly rare. Which is why Taylor Sheridan’s new series The Madison deserves attention....