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America has just celebrated its 250th birthday amid a quiet but consequential confusion: a growing tendency to treat the American Revolution and the French Revolution as siblings—two chapters in...

Several weeks after the 2016 election, Marjorie Dannenfelser received a voicemail from President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Her organization, the Susan B. Anthony List, had knocked on over a million...

To Arrive Where We Started:Belonging in the Modern World by ian marcus corbinyale university press, 200 pages, $32.50 Ian Marcus Corbin’s new book, To Arrive Where We Started, offers a...

When I traveled to Norway for the first time, I was already a devoted reader of Sigrid Undset and in awe of her courage and character. A Nobel laureate...

Famesick:A Memoirby lena dunhamrandom house, 416 pages, $32 If offered the choice, how many of us would take riches, fame, and recognition, even if the price is a half-life?...

Robert Louis Wilken—radical Christian disciple, devoted husband and father, distinguished patristics scholar, elegant writer, serious baseball guy—died on June 6, a few months short of age ninety. Curiously enough,...

In 2026, three anniversaries coincide that together illuminate the enduring significance of religious liberty. Apart from marking two hundred and fifty years since the founding of the United States...

Great Books are back on everyone’s mind. Christopher Nolan is making a film about one. Many fear a sacrilege—with good reason: Nolan is reported to approve of Emily Wilson’s...

In the fall of 1992, a Yale freshman named Jared Waxman wrote a letter to the editor of the Yale Herald. The Yale Freshmen Assembly had been held on...

Novelists, playwrights, and historians, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822–1896 and 1830–1870) were also the supreme chroniclers of the Parisian literary and artistic life of their time. The diary...

And so it has happened. The Society of St. Pius X has gone ahead with its illicit ordination of four new bishops, and the Vatican has responded with the...

The music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has been described as spiritual, transcendent, Eastern, angelic, ethereal, mystical, ascetic, tranquil, otherworldly. Jeremy Begbie adds “escapist” to the modifiers, criticizing Pärt...

The Trump v. Barbara decision concerning birthright citizenship did not surprise me. Mass migration is the most explosive issue in today’s politics. It puts tremendous stress on the postwar...

Buckingham Palace has updated the official description of the monarch’s role vis-à-vis the Church of England. No longer is the king the “Defender of the Faith”; rather, “His Majesty...

On Tuesday, in a decision that will rank among the most consequential—and misguided—of the modern era, the Supreme Court entrenched an expansive vision of birthright citizenship in Trump v....