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Pope Leo XIV marked World Day Against the Death Penalty, observed on October 10, with the following message on X: The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault. He was influential in his lifetime, but forty-two years after his death, while contemporaries such as Derrida have...

There have been ­many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people who are, to put it mildly, critical of them. This book is different....

According to the online Encyclopedia Britannica, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) was “an Italian-born businessman who was noted for his philanthropy and support of Jewish rights.” In the England...

For decades, Sweden had perhaps the most open immigration policy and the strongest commitment to tolerance and multiculturalism in the West. That changed in 2015, when the Sweden Democrats...

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Steven B. Smith joins in to discuss his book, On Statesmanship. The conversation is embedded...

Jan Morris (1926–2020) was a writer of astounding gifts who not only recorded history but made it. First, as the young reporter James Morris, he joined the successful 1953 British...

I learned a new word the other day: déploration. It’s the French, directly from the Latin, for “lament.” But as a term for a specific musical genre, it was novel...

At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope ­Francis speaks of “an episode in the life of St. Francis

Neal climbs up to join me at the belay. Moving quickly, he kicks the front points of his crampons into the gray alpine ice and swings one of his ice axes like a framing hammer...

Wheeling through the clotted earth, / Bronze, bone, and leather clumped in clay...

It is said that Job lost everything, but she has lost more. All her possessions—the money, the house, the clothes—they still exist, but she no longer regards them as...

The Second World War left Europe invaded and ruined, divided between Soviet and American occupations. Hitler’s defeat represented a “triumph and tragedy”—the title Winston Churchill took for the final...

It’s now 250 years since America declared her independence and embarked on the experiment of fashioning a nation dedicated to liberty. Do those long-ago events and the deliberations of...

Who is our Odysseus? Or more precisely, who is the most ­Odyssean hero of American film? Matt Damon’s mopey trauma patient? Certainly not....