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The Lost Boys, a Broadway musical adapted from the 1980s vampire flick, opens with a flickering specter. A doomed cop is searching a condemned warehouse when a TV suddenly...

In the future, everyone will know the grief of Garry Kasparov. The Russian grandmaster was bested by the chess-playing computer Deep Blue in 1997. No human competitor since then...

With every bite you take, ask yourself, is this the best choice I could make for my baby?” That was the last sentence a friend of mine read in her guide to pregnancy book before she threw it in the bin...

Tony Gilroy’s Andor feels like Star Wars as you remember it. When I was little, my mom took us to see the original trilogy re-released in theaters, even though...

Pope Francis began a Jubilee of Mercy in 2015, and now, in the aftermath of his death, “mercy” is the watchword in both the religious and secular reflections on...

Putting “O Holy Night” on the program at Christmas Masses in Chicago this year may prove a little awkward. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s recent message to his diocese, entitled...

America is missing children because it’s missing marriages. However, fixing our fertility gap won’t happen by pressuring or humiliating singles. It requires fixing the broken dating cultures that are...

Father Justin was rightly defrocked within two days of his public debut. “Father Justin” was the name given to the AI-powered chatbot recently launched by Catholic Answers as an...

Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by timothy p. carney harper, 368 pages, $29.99 The Anxious Generation: How the Great...

In traditional marriage vows, husband and wife promise to care for each other “in sickness and in health, till death do us part.” But when one or both of...

You don’t want me to cut your toast with a little heart cookie cutter, do you?” I ask. As expected, my husband declines. It’s a little strange to plan...

ChatGPT has schools playing defense. This artificial-intelligence language bot was developed by OpenAI (“GPT” stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer”). Microsoft, Google, and other Big Tech companies are developing their...

This review contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. When my brother was young, my mother read The Lord of the Rings aloud to him. He loved the tale...

American Shtetl:The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New Yorkby nomi m. stolzenberg and david n. myersprinceton, 496 pages, $35 The sign at the border of...

Encanto, the newest Disney animated musical, was released as Omicron spiked and many families hunkered down for a quiet, isolated Christmas. The magical Madrigal family at the heart of...