ReligionCulturePoliticsBooksAboutContactSubmissionsFear Not! The Romantic Comedy Lives!By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On May 2, 2014  · Leave a Comment · In CultureIt’s alright everybody. Go back to living your lives. The end is not here. Despite what you’ve heard, the romantic comedy is not dead.That was a close one.I’m not one to panic, usually. I didn’t worry when, last year, Christopher Orr writing for The Atlantic issued his complaint that romantic comedies (or, [...]Continue Reading →Burn Your Indecision to the GroundBy David Sessions On April 18, 2014  · 10 Comments · In Culture, PoliticsAn acquaintance recently sent me this essay written by Zachary Fine, an undergraduate at NYU—a thoughtful examination of why it’s so difficult for millennials to figure out what they like, what they care about, and what to do with themselves. It’s a decided improvement from the condescending, get-off-my-lawn millennial-bashing so beloved by [...]Continue Reading →The Evil God of ‘Noah’By David Sessions On March 30, 2014  · 11 Comments · In Culture, ReligionWarning: Noah spoilers throughout.Walking out of our screening of Noah last week, one of the first things I said to my colleague was, “I think the moral of the story was that God is evil.” While the movie strenuously, almost ridiculously tries to illustrate how much mankind deserved its fate, their [...]Continue Reading →Evangelicalism is Shrinking Itself to DeathBy Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 26, 2014  · 23 Comments · In ReligionI grew up in a fundamentalist church that purposefully and actively sequestered itself and its members from the rest of the world whenever possible. For example, when its founding members’ children reached school age, they started a school to spare their children the corruption of secular schools. This is not uncommon, perhaps your Christian school [...]Continue Reading →Rod Dreher, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, and MeBy David Sessions On March 4, 2014  · 21 Comments · In ReligionI’ve been aware for a while that my criticisms of the more ideological incarnations of liberal rationalism have an undeniable resonance with conservative religious arguments. That was confirmed last weekend when this post I wrote last year, analyzing the liberal humanism I adopted after I left my former conservative evangelicalism, went viral in [...]Continue Reading →New Sincerity Sighting: Normcore FashionBy Paul Bowers On March 3, 2014  · 2 Comments · In Culture, UncategorizedNew York Magazine ran a trend piece Wednesday about “normcore,” a supposedly anti-fashion fashion trend supposedly emerging among beautiful New York young people. The aesthetic can be summed up by Steve Jobs turtlenecks, garish-white Jerry Seinfeld sneakers, and your dad’s sky-blue weekend jeans.Here’s writer Fiona Duncan’s explanation:Jeremy Lewis, the founder/editor of [...]Continue Reading