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Russia’s Sacrilegious War on Ukraine
Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck. U.S. foreign policy can’t fix that. Nonetheless, those responsible for devising U.S. foreign policy should recognize how...

Pope Francis’s Apocalyptic Dream
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...

What We’ve Been Reading—January
R. R. Reno A friend was shocked that I had not read Saul Bellow. He sought to remedy my grave literary deficit by sending me a copy of Herzog, the novelist’s...

Altar Rails and Borders
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...

Trump for Women
On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” It requires the federal government “to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive...

I Hate the Chiefs
In real life, I’m a gentle soul—easygoing, tolerant, deferential, emotionally steady with a tilt toward whimsical joviality. There are exceptions. Behind the wheel of a car, I turn into...

Purity Culture Isn’t the Problem
The last decade witnessed a sharp turn against the so-called purity culture that emerged in the 1990s American Christian scene. Emphasizing abstinence and exalting virginity, it has since been...

Give the National Endowment for the Arts Back to the Public
For decades, Americans have become increasingly alienated from the American arts establishment. The main source for their discontent is clear: Academics and their allies have successfully insisted upon first...

Pro-Lifers and the Trump Administration: Wins, Concerns, and the MAHA Opportunity
Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows that the pro-life movements have received some very important victories courtesy of the Trump administration. The horror show that...

Manners, Methods, and Greatness
Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a tale from eighty years ago with a lesson for American public life...

The OnlyFans Exploitation Trap
OnlyFans creators are competing to have sex with as many men as possible in the shortest amount of time. It started in October last year, when twenty-three-year-old Lily Phillips...

The Slow Death of ESG and DEI
A couple of years ago, another financial advisor with whom I work related the following story to me: He was at a conference chatting with an executive from a...

China, DeepSeek, and American Complacency
History is a heartless teacher. Three hundred years before Christ, Carthage was a prosperous commercial empire dominating the Mediterranean, sustained and protected by the world’s most powerful navy. Rome...

The Future of First Things
I hope you like our new website. Our content remains first-rate. Now, the internet delivers timely and timeless writing to you in a more delightful format. When designing the...

JD Vance States the Obvious About Ordo Amoris
We are living, it scarcely needs saying, in unpredictable times. But no one could have imagined that within days of Donald J. Trump’s triumphant return to the White House,...