Articles by Jerry Salyer

First, to be clear, there are positive things to be said about higher education. For instance, what grasp of Latin I possess, I owe largely to the world-class classics department of the University of Kentucky. […]

Back in the late 80s and into the 90s, even as an unphilosophical teenager and avid consumer of comic books, I was well aware of flaws in the fantasy worlds of Marvel and DC. I […]

Thanks partly to the obvious insanity of the left, especially under the Biden administration, what I once called the “Antichrist Right” back in 2010 has become surprisingly mainstream. Young people—especially young men—are far more open to […]

Reflecting upon the post-Christian West’s bias against Christianity, G. K. Chesterton once suggested that his modern-minded countrymen regard the Twelve Apostles “as Chinamen, and judge them fairly as Chinamen,” and think of the Gospel “as […]

“In studying how the world works, we are studying how God works, and thereby learning what God is. In that spirit we can interpret the search for knowledge as a form of worship, and our […]

Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., observes in Christ, Science, and Reason that the refutation of those who have denied Jesus’ existence as a historical person may be summed up in a single word: Tacitus. This first-century […]

“The most obvious candidate for worst decision by the [Supreme] Court is Roe v. Wade,” remarks Stephen Presser in his contribution to A Paleoconservative Anthology: New Voices for an Old Tradition. Obvious indeed, yet according […]