Louis Markos

Jan 13, 2025 | thefederalist.com | Louis Markos

How did we get here? How is it possible that highly educated people in our culture think gender is something we can choose? How can those who say they care about children put a twelve-year-old on puberty blockers — and do so without consulting the child’s parents? How can a culture that once recognized the danger of sins against morality morph into one that only critiques, censors, and cancels what it considers to be sins against equality?

Jan 13, 2025 | conservativereview.com | Louis Markos

Nov 14, 2024 | wng.org | Louis Markos

Though my evidence is more anecdotal than empirical, I would venture to guess that more Christians pray for the conversion of Jordan Peterson than any other public figure. Peterson, a practicing clinical psychologist who has taught at Harvard and the University of Toronto, became an overnight celebrity when he refused to abide by Canadian laws concerning pronoun usage.

Nov 12, 2024 | theimaginativeconservative.org | Louis Markos

Augustine’s Confessions is first and foremost a prayer to God. Indeed, unless we read it as a prayer, we will not understand it; we will only study it. I Burned for Your Peace: Augustine’s Confessions Unpacked, by Peter Kreeft (240 pages, Ignatius Press, 2016)Back in 1990, I had the rare privilege of teaching in the honors program at the University of Michigan. The professor in charge was an accomplished classics scholar with a contagious zeal for the Great Books.

Nov 12, 2024 | americanreformer.org | Louis Markos

Whether we be Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, traditionalist or progressive, there is one thing we all share. We are consumers. We may not want to be. We may feel quite certain that we are not. But we are. Because there is another thing that we all share. Whether we are rich or poor, old or young, male or female, white or black, we all have a smartphone. And that smartphone makes us a consumer—whether we want to be or not.