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Wifejak, Icon of the Normal
Social-media sites are dark places. Bigotry in every direction, footage of random ultra-violence, porn and OnlyFans content—all this and more is part of the routine user experience on these...

New Yorkers, Vote “No” on Proposition One
For a while now, the consensus has been that “woke” is fizzling out after peaking in 2020. There is some truth to this. Kamala Harris has declined to foreground her identity...
The Mystery of Israel
The “mystery of Israel”—that’s what Jacques Maritain called Israel’s 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 & 2 by henri daniel-rops translated by audrey butler cluny, 786 pages, $55.95 The young are eschewing marriage. Birth rates are...
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 Bundahišn: 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 MacGillis’s 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 columnist’s cleverness could do justice to the absurdity of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s 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, France’s 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 couldn’t be done: I couldn’t find a copy of Jean Daniélou’s Prayer as a Political Problem. The 1967 book,...
Resist in Truth
Live Not by Lies:A Manual for Christian Dissidentsby rod dreher sentinel, 256 pages, $27 In 1951, security forces in communist Czechoslovakia arrested Silvester Krčméry—and as they were taking him...
The Trouble With Christian Leftism
The guides of the proletariat were right. The lessons of recent political and social events prove it.” So declared France’s Catholic worker-priest movement in a collectively authored book published...