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I write these words on pilgrimage in the beautiful Italian town of Assisi, home to Sts. Francis, Clare, and now, since September 7, Carlo Acutis. The images of Francis...

In the second episode of While We’re At It, Cameron Sexton joins in to talk about his work as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and Speaker...

Over the last few years, I have spent a good bit of time reading the early critical theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse. And...

Light on Darkness restores liturgy to its place at the heart of the medieval world. Like a Jesse tree, its trunk sprang from roots in the deep soil of antiquity, and its branches...

I met Charlie Kirk once at a Turning Point event I helped organize, which brought him and Eric Trump to speak at Georgetown University in February 2020. It turned...

America needs the example of a real hero: a dedicated hero who enhances natural talents by hard work and takes pride in a craft; an unselfish hero who places...

A sense of an ending is in the air, but there’s little consensus about what’s ending or why. Progressives worry about the end of democracy, while MAGA conservatives celebrate the sudden implosion...

According to Washington auxiliary bishop Roy Campbell, Catholics should stand up for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—DEI—because DEI also means “God” (as in, Dei).   That insulting association of the Divine...

In the summer of 1942, Arthur D. Hyde, vice president in charge of research at General Mills, held what must have been the strangest meeting in his long career...

Why has the murder of Charlie Kirk resonated so powerfully through the culture? Is it because he was cut down so brutally in his prime? That he left behind...

Jerry Falwell. R. C. Sproul. John MacArthur. And now James Dobson. Over the last twenty years, death has slowly but surely claimed a generation of conservative evangelical powerhouses who...

Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human body. One day, a present-day German painter in Leipzig placed a blue...

In the first episode of While We’re At It, a brand new interview series with First Things editor Rusty Reno, Michael Knowles joins in to talk about The Pope...

On August 7, Ross Douthat interviewed Noor Siddiqui on his podcast Interesting Times. Siddiqui is the founder and CEO of Orchid, a company that performs comprehensive genetic screening of...

The stacks referred to in the title of this column, as you may have guessed, are made up of books, to be found on all three levels of our...