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In this episode, Ericka Andersen joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her recent essay, “Who Owns the Embryos?” from the April 2025 issue of the magazine....

After the Cold War, the United States could imagine that its military was all-­powerful. America seemed capable of taking decisive action anywhere in the world. This awesome war-making potential...

Written by Karl Popper after he fled Austria in the late 1930s, The Open Society and Its Enemies was published as World War II ended. The book attained canonical...

H. Richard Niebuhr taught at Yale Divinity School for many decades. In 1953, he made the following ­observations in a short column, “On Our Conservative Youth,” in a special issue of the Yale student newspaper

My first experience of Passover came the spring after our wedding. My wife is Jewish, and she signed us up for the Yale Hillel Seder, a large affair of...

In this episode, Christopher Caldwell joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent piece, “Merkel’s Country” from the March 2025 issue of the magazine. The conversation...

In this episode, Matthew Schmitz joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent piece, “Elon’s Family Values” from the April 2025 issue of the magazine. The...

The wind has shifted. People want hard religion, not easy religion. They seek out communities that are demanding rather than permissive. They want truth-based ­theologies, not outlooks softened with...

Representatives of the U.S. and Russian governments are meeting in Saudi Arabia as I write. Their goal is to determine whether an agreement can be reached to end the...

In this episode, Nathan Pinkoski joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his book review “Paleofuturism” from the February 2025 issue of the magazine. The conversation is...

Annex Greenland! Take back the Panama Canal! Canada as the fifty-first state! Speaking at an early January press conference, Donald Trump put the world in a tizzy. German chancellor Olaf Scholz recoiled...

Pope Francis published his suicide note. It took the form of a letter to the American Catholic bishops. In so many words, the Holy Father urged his brother bishops...

Catholicism in the United States and Europe is heading toward trouble. The presenting issue is immigration. Vice President JD Vance criticized the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for...

In this episode, Anselm Audley joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his essay “Cities for Humans” from the January 2025 issue of the magazine. The conversation...

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