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The Love Society and Its Enemies

Written by Karl Popper after he fled Austria in the late 1930s, The Open Society and Its Enemies…
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It’s Always Open Season on Christianity

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How Abortion Lost Its Cool

Carmel Richardson
Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory shocked many. The deplorables won the day, the elites were disgraced, and history was shown to have at least one more chapter. As…

How I Kicked My Phone Habit

Clement Harrold

About eighteen months ago, I decided I wanted a healthier relationship with my smartphone. My phone had…

How Abortion Lost Its Cool

Carmel Richardson

Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory shocked many. The deplorables won the day, the elites were disgraced,…

Pure Episcopalianism

Joshua T. Katz

It was in June 2022 that my wife and I started looking for a home in Washington,…

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The editors discuss the live-action Snow White, Disney’s biggest flop in recent memory. Did the star hijack it with her woke statements—or was she scapegoated? Is Disney worthy of…

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The Destiny of Israel

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Josh Hammer joins in to discuss his recent book, Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish…

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The Problem of Embryo Ownership

In this episode, Ericka Andersen joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her recent essay, “Who Owns the Embryos?” from the April 2025 issue of the magazine….
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The Other IVF

Aaron Kheriaty
One in six couples wanting to conceive a child find themselves, after a year or more of trying to get pregnant, unable to do so. The anguish of infertility…

Are the Tech Bros Worse than Queer Theorists?

Carl R. Trueman

Last week, two signs of our times passed across my desk. First, a colleague drew my attention…

Vindicating John’s Gospel

Charlotte Allen

In March, a team of archaeologists excavating beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher announced a new…

How Catholic Institutions Are Responding to the Physician Deficit

Teresa A. Donovan

Last year, the Association of American Medical Colleges warned that the United States will face a shortage…

On the Way of the Cross, in Ukraine and Hong Kong

George Weigel

Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that…

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The Right Has Forgotten Feeling

Freya India

I’m not sure how I got here, into these pages. Lately I’ve found myself in a lot…

Feminism Against Fertility

Darel E. Paul

When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the boys crowed and the girls cried. At least…

How to Commemorate 1776

Walter A. McDougall

Next year is America’s 250th anniversary, and President Trump has promised us a “spectacular birthday party.” The…

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Song of Thanksgiving 

Richard Bratby

The Catholic Beethovenby nicholas chongoxford university, 336 pages, $99 On the cover of ­Nicholas Chong’s new book,…

Immaterial World

Stephen M. Barr

Light of the Mind, Light of the World:Illuminating Science Through Faithby spencer a. klavanskyhorse, 272 pages, $29.99…

Liberal ­Integralists

Vincent L. Strand, S.J.

The Church Against the State:On Subsidiarity and Sovereigntyby andrew willard jonesnew polity, 321 pages, $34.95 Eight years…

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Lift My Chin, Lord 

Jennifer Reeser

Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…

Spring Twilight After Penance 

Sally Thomas

Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…

For an English Teacher 

Matthew Buckley Smith

You died, but it was not your words that faltered. You’d husbanded the language all your life, And when…

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