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Rule Zombie Britannia
The U.K. is isolated, as European leaders seek to beat off the instability and irrationality radiating from the British Isles. The country is in a state of industrial decay....
Pope Francis, Trad Icon
The early years of Pope Francisโs reign coincided with an HBO show about a young, chain-smoking pontiff who takes the suggestive name Pius XIII and brings back the papal...
Wifejak, Icon of the Normal
Social-media sites are dark places. Bigotry in every direction, footage of random ultra-violence, porn and OnlyFans contentโall this and more is part of the routine user experience on these...
New Yorkers, Vote โNoโ on Proposition One
For a while now, the consensus has been that โwokeโ is fizzling out after peaking in 2020. There is some truth to this. Kamala Harris has declinedย toย foreground her identity...
The Mystery of Israel
The โmystery of Israelโโthatโs what Jacques Maritain called Israelโs endurance as the people of the Old Covenant, its indomitable insistence on Jewish particularity over and against the universal claims...
Apostolic Empire
The Church of Apostles and Martyrs:Volumes 1 & 2by henri daniel-ropstranslated by audrey butlercluny, 786 pages, $55.95 The young are eschewing marriage. Birth rates are collapsing. Abortion and even...
Miseducation of the Millennials
The Dumbest Generation Grows Up:From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adultsby mark bauerleinregnery gateway, 256 pages, $29.99 Not long before the pandemic, I met a senior foreign-policy scholar at a...
On Wisdom-Lord-Worship
The Bundahiลกn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation:A New Translationedited and translated by domenico agostini and samuel thropeoxford university, 262 pages, $99 Iranian rule has come to an end in...
Homo Amazonicus
Fulfillment:Winning and Losing in One-Click Americaby alec macgillis farrar, straus and giroux, 400 pages, $28 For religious conservatives, Alec MacGillisโs Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America is one...
The Perils of American Safetyism
A taxi arrives at a desert retreat center, bearing a young woman with a surgical mask around her neck. As the car rolls past the gate and into the...
A New Brand of Biblicism
Of all the reactions to the Vatican declaration this week ruling out the blessing of same-sex unions, the most interesting came from Daniel P. Horan, OFM. Times have changed,...
We Laugh, They Rule
No columnistโs cleverness could do justice to the absurdity of Rep. Emanuel Cleaverโs opening prayer for the 117th Congress on Sunday. Cleaver, a Methodist pastor, closed his prayer for national...
Bring Back the Body
What It Means to Be Human:The Case for the Body in Public Bioethicsby o. carter snead harvard, 336 pages, $39.95 In 2014, Franceโs High Audiovisual Council, the government body...
A Catholic Tribute to Lord Sacks
The West, according to an account beloved by Catholics, rose out of a providential encounter between reason and revelation in antiquity. Though occasioned by conquest, the encounter yielded an...
Why We Need Cluny Media
For more than a year, I tried and tried, but it couldnโt be done: I couldnโt find a copy of Jean Daniรฉlouโs Prayer as a Political Problem. The 1967 book,...
