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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,...

Trump Ends Government Promotion of Gender Ideology and Child Mutilation
Trump’s ban on gender transitioning has turned the tide on an indefensible cult,” writes Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore. “The pretense that sex can be changed is over.” In just...

Thinking Twice About Re-Enchantment
Since the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, the story goes, we’ve lived more and more in a machine world of cogs, pistons, and flywheels, devoid of meaning and mystery....

TikTok Is Digital Fentanyl—U.S. Ownership Won’t Change That
Last year, in a historic bipartisan effort, Congress passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The law stipulated that unless TikTok—the wildly popular video sharing app...

How Should Catholics Respond to the Immigration Crisis?
The appointment of Cardinal Robert W. McElroy as Archbishop of Washington, D.C., has been widely interpreted in the press as an answer to the election of Donald Trump. Predictably,...

A New Evangelical Harvest
American culture is undergoing a “vibe shift.” There’s a resurgence of hope among conservatives that politics and culture will increasingly return to reality. But alongside this, there seem to...

Catholics, Hippocrates, and Reforming American Medicine
I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist; my mother-in-law, a...