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To most Americans, “capitalism” means “free economy,” a market system in which individuals and freely formed groups have the liberty to innovate, collaborate, produce, distribute, buy, and sell, all...

Many of my fellow Germans blame “stupid voters” for the current political situation. If these voters only educated themselves, the argument goes, they would not believe the lies told...

Reports of the financial struggles and decline in membership among large American denominations have become so commonplace that they often elicit little more than a shrug. But every now...

A funny story is almost never improved by an assiduous concern for facts. Case in point: Gerald Durrell’s marvelous My Family and Other Animals, one of the glories of...

What do you call a billion-dollar corporation that annually swallows millions in government funding but fails to deliver comprehensive medical care to women? Planned Parenthood...

DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good sense to send to the U.S. House of Representatives a man the...

On March 14, President Trump signed an executive order that cut funding for seven agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The order demands that the agencies...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory has now retired as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. In 2001, Gregory was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The following year,...

R. R. Reno As a teenager, I was an aspiring rock climber. At eighteen, I found myself in Yosemite Valley, having gone there during a gap year before college to become...

A cohort of American Catholic patrons of the arts sense the time is ripe for another Renaissance. “We need to create a culture of patronage,” Frank Hanna, the Atlanta...

Tony Tulathimutte’s breakthrough short story “The Feminist,” published in the literary magazine n+1, generated significant online controversy six years ago. The protagonist, an obsequious male feminist...

Do you remember those illustrations (which used to be very common) that showed, say, a deliberately jokey “map” of what was in someone’s brain or “on their mind”? That...

The U.K. is facing a serious education crisis. In February, the Labour government scrapped the Latin Excellence Programme, a scheme that funded Latin education in state schools, leaving some...

The National Catholic Reporter recently saw fit to mark Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s seventy-fifth birthday by perpetuating two myths—falsehoods, really—about events in contemporary Church history in which...

Until 2023, the library at Trinity College in Dublin was named after George Berkeley, one of the great names of eighteenth-century philosophy. Berkeley studied and taught at Trinity. He...