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In London this summer, I walked past a pub sign near Trafalgar Square that read “Fully Air Conditioned. Serving Cold Beers.” Turning to my wife, I laughed: “I truly...

Germany finds itself in a strange situation. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is steadily growing in popularity, as shown by its September 6 victory in Sachsen-Anhalt, where it came...

Born at the end of the Millennial generation, Charlie Kirk rose to prominence in tandem with Donald Trump. Kirk seemed tailored for the Trump era. His tall frame projected...

There is a long-running strain of New Testament criticism, associated most famously with Albert Schweitzer, that places great weight on the theme of deferred apocalyptic expectation. On this paradigm...

On today’s episode, writer Fr. James Martin joins Virginia and Germán. As a Catholic, growing up online meant that the dividing line between “conservative” and “liberal” Catholics was an...

Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon in the name of deranged religious convictions, I was at dinner in the papal apartment...

With Constitution Day taking place this month, a few books on the Founding of our republic are worth notice. Is the U.S. Constitution a democratic instrument? Some scholars argue that...

A new play inspired by the seven-film Paranormal Activity series is now on stage at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. At the heart of the play...

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Patrick Deneen joins in to discuss his recent book, American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals...

Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature on September 6, Germany’s leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, ran a cover story...

The editors discuss Trump’s renaming craze and its implications for international politics, the decay of academia in light of the Jason Arday scandal, and the upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of...

In his Apologia ad Carolum Quintum, English cardinal Reginald Pole claimed that Thomas Cromwell told him in 1529 that Machiavelli’s The Prince had inspired King Henry VIII to break with Rome. The claim...

On August 25, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the First Amendment protects the right of Americans to possess...

I worked in senior staff positions in Catholic dioceses for twenty-seven years. For nearly all of them my duties included, in part, dealing with the legal, political, and media...

Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day.  That’s the way things...