James Talarico’s Backward Christianity
James Talarico wants to “reclaim Christianity for the left.” That’s the title of the New York Times interview with Talarico—currently running for Senate in Texas—and the phrasing is revealing….
March 2026
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How Hipsters Gave Us Trump
A New Purity Culture
I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Well-thumbed copies of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Every Young Man’s…
Smooth Sailing
I regularly fume as I am caught in the chain of red lights that mark my rides…
Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong
In Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, hundreds of Australian foot soldiers, armed only with bayonets, are sent,…
Madness in Minneapolis
It’s tempting, given the pace of our news cycle these days, to resist the urge to crown…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
Redemptor Hominis: More Important than Ever
Forty-seven years ago, Pope John Paul II issued his first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man).…
James Talarico’s Backward Christianity
James Talarico wants to “reclaim Christianity for the left.” That’s the title of the New York Times…
Just War Theory and Epic Fury
The machines of war have sprung into action once again in the Middle East. Bombs are falling…
Students for Notre Dame
As I walked out of class Thursday morning, the day before the planned student-led “March on the…
Lyric as Disclosure
Back in 2014, my wife and I bought a house on six acres of land several miles…
Love in the Time of Mass Migration
The unknown traveler shows up storm-tossed, naked, and hungry. He is bathed and clothed, the best wine…
Why I’m Done with Notre Dame
I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left.…
Indispensable Plato
Over the past decade, somewhat surprisingly, many people have become born-again defenders of Western civilization…
The Serpent and the Dove
Late in the evening of Thursday, September 8, 1955, Communist Party officials in Shanghai launched a mass…
A Critique of the New Right Misses Its Target
American conservatism has produced a bewildering number of factions over the years, and especially over the last…
Long Days
To my brother John. What happened to long days,the ones whose ends we couldn’tfathom till they came,and…
Caravaggio’s “Conversion of St. Paul”
(in the Cerasi Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo) Paul lies sprawled beneath his…
Latch Hook
The only rug we had was on the wall—linoleum was what my mother knew—a woodsy scene, green…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
No Friend in Jesus
“I cannot conceive an argument with John’s Jesus,” Jacob Neusner once wrote, “because eternal Israel in John…
God’s First Love: The Theology of Michael Wyschogrod
Paradox attends the influence of Michael Wyschogrod, perhaps the most original Jewish theologian of the past half…
Lincoln’s Almost Chosen People
In his wonderful book Land of Lincoln, Andrew Ferguson recalls meeting an immigrant family from Thailand who…
King David
In a provocative and profound essay in this magazine (“A King in Israel,” May 2010), the late…
The Undying People
The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us…
