Hollywood’s "Exorcist" industry is alive and well: The sixth film in a series begun in 1973 is out and available to stream today. The Exorcist: Believer is not a particularly good movie, but it ...

I was relaxing at a coffee shop recently when up walked Jimmy Knechtel. He grabbed a chair and, frowning, thumped a few ...

"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." —Erich Fromm Questions ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by considering a strong argument against religious faith, against the existence ...

In his 2002 State of the Union address, just five months after the al Qaeda-linked terrorist attack on 9/11, President George W. Bush cited three countries that he designated the “Axis of Evil”: Iraq, ...

Q. I am 18 years old, and recently the “problem of evil” really threw me for a loop and caused me a lot of pain. I am asking for your help in understanding it a bit more. Why did God, who is ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...

The world has changed since President George W. Bush, in his 2002 State of the Union address, first called Iran, Iraq and North Korea the “Axil of Evil.” Today, there’s a different, four-country Axis ...

What does it mean to have faith, to believe in a God who is present when it seems like power and greed inevitably win? In the face of these kinds of questions it often feels like we need to address ...