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February 1, 2025 | Vol. 40, No. 2

Baby fever

Mary Jackson, Emma Freire | Amid plunging birth rates, a growing pronatalist movement insists families need to have more kids


FEATURES
Extinction event

Grace Snell | Antinatalists say it’s time for humans to go the way of the dodo bird

The redemption of Jimmy Carter

Paul Kengor | ESSAY: The 39th president’s bumpy ride to a flourishing post–Oval Office career

Down the rabbit hole

Grace Snell | Do magic mushrooms hold the key to healing broken brains?

A decent place to belong

Theresa Abell Haynes | How the son of a Virginia slave built a thriving city in Washington state


CULTURE
TRENDING

Gen Z’s box office wish

TRENDING | Young moviegoers say they want less sex and romance on screen. Will Hollywood listen?

Books

Faithfully political

BOOKS | A helpful yet incomplete look at Christianity and politics

Hope for higher ed

BOOKS | Can Christian curriculum save Christian colleges?

Faith-inspired fairy tale

BOOKS | Christian author writes about the desire to belong

Portals to the interior

A reintroduction to the canonized thinker

An autodidact reckons with his past

BOOKS | Place and providence in the life of veteran Nashville producer Charlie Peacock

Pondering our humanity: eight books

BOOKS | Technology, apologetics, history, and more

Children's Books

Magnificent wonders

CHILDREN’S BOOKS | Amazing animal brains and singular sea creatures

Life lessons and adventures

CHILDREN’S BOOKS | Novels about brave children and picture books to prompt discussion

 
FILM & TV

Minted

DOCUMENTARY | Inside the strange and exorbitant world of digital art

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

MOVIE | Despite some cheap gags, the film retains much of the magic of the British franchise

Coming soon

MOVIES | A look at upcoming February releases

Brave the Dark

MOVIE | Slightly clumsy but authentic film about a troubled student brings nuance to a familiar plotline

Music

Eric Clapton: uncanceled

MUSIC | Music legend bounces back from criticism

New and noteworthy

MUSIC | Reviews of four recent albums

The Baroque foundations of Europop?

MUSIC | A new album juxtaposes French opera with ABBA

CCM to keep winter blues at bay

MUSIC | A father’s blessing, hopeful hallelujahs, and more

Masterworks

A Christ that confounds expectations

MASTERWORKS | The plain piety of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Quest

Vocations and visions for the Christian life

QUEST | Four books that shaped my thinking


NOTEBOOK
Business
Dreams in the desert

BUSINESS | Saudi Arabia’s audacious plan for a futuristic city hits economic hurdles

Life
Fight for secrecy

LIFE | Lawsuit attacks Indiana’s pro-life law on privacy grounds

Religion
Persecution report

RELIGION | Hostility to Christians grows in India, Africa, and beyond

Immigration
Making aliyah

IMMIGRATION | Growing anti-Semitism is leading some Western Jews to make Israel their home

Science
Drug risk assessment

SCIENCE | Study links drug, alcohol use with childhood brain structure

Technology
My chatbot companion

TECHNOLOGY | Some kids are becoming addicted to AI characters

Education
Counting up tragedies

EDUCATION | Deaths from school shootings dropped slightly in 2024, but schools still saw dozens of violent incidents