If you’re not reading The City, you should be. It features excellent Christian consideration of the public square. The newest issue is out, and it features a symposium on Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion, a very important book. I had the honor of contributing. Douthat is one of my favorite cultural and political commentators, and I found out recently that he summers near where my family has for decades. I like him even more now.
Here’s the info on the issue with a link to the content:
The latest edition of The City was mailed last week! You’ll be receiving your copy soon if you haven’t already, or you can read it here online.
This edition of The City features a symposium on Ross Douthat’s important new book, Bad Religion, with articles by Susan McWilliams, Owen Strachan, Joseph Knippenberg, and Matthew Lee Anderson, with Ross Douthat himself responding.
Other features include a conversation with Richard Epstein on liberty, the citizen, and the state, Louis Markos on Being a Christian Humanist, and Matthew Milliner on Medieval Lessons for Universities. In our Books & Culture section Walter Russell Mead writes on Faith and the Elites, Francis J. Beckwith on Religious Freedom, Andrew Walker on Abraham Kuyper, and J. Matthew Boyleston reviews Dana Gioia. As always, Hunter Baker’s Republic of Letters features insight and reactions to the debates of the times, and John Poch and Aaron Belz provide our poetry this issue.
Read the whole thing, and subscribe to it to receive it in print. If you like First Things, you need the evangelical equivalent.
