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Are the Tech Bros Worse than Queer Theorists?

Carl R. Trueman

Last week, two signs of our times passed across my desk. First, a colleague drew my attention to the forthcoming volume A Queer Lectionary: (Im)proper Readings from the Margins—Year...

Vindicating John’s Gospel

Charlotte Allen

In March, a team of archaeologists excavating beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher announced a new finding: ancient pollen and other botanical evidence indicating a garden had been...

How Catholic Institutions Are Responding to the Physician Deficit

Teresa A. Donovan

Last year, the Association of American Medical Colleges warned that the United States will face a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, including a shortage of between...

On the Way of the Cross, in Ukraine and Hong Kong

George Weigel

Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that the wood of the manger anticipates the wood of the Cross: that...

One Cheer for Anna Paulina Luna’s Proxy Voting Gambit

Rachel Bovard

Congressional proxy voting is a terrible idea. It is patently unconstitutional. It is as slippery a slope toward corruption and abuse of power as can be imagined. And even...

Is the Foreigner My Neighbor? A Christian Dialogue on Immigration

James Orr Joel Looper

My wife, an immigration attorney here in Texas, held a well-attended “know your rights” session for immigrants last night. But not a soul who was at risk of deportation came...

The Night Ozempic Came to Dinner

Kari Jenson Gold

I love dinner parties. I love attending them, and I love throwing them even more. When I was a child, my parents had lively dinners every week—sometimes raucous, always...

Hidden in the Shadow of the Cross

Mike Aabram

I first discovered Mother St. Paul in the 1990s. A parish friend was handing out photocopies of her slim Simple Meditations after Mass with the same fervor as a...

A Christian at Passover

R. R. Reno

My first experience of Passover came the spring after our wedding. My wife is Jewish, and she signed us up for the Yale Hillel Seder, a large affair of...

Marine Le Pen and the Weaponized Judiciary

Michel Gurfinkiel

François Mitterrand, who is now remembered as the greatest, or at least the savviest, left-wing statesman of contemporary France, and who reigned over the country for fourteen years, was...

Germany’s Confession of Nihilism

Andreas Lombard

Every now and then I’m invited to an early-eighteenth-century castle in the German countryside, with high baroque ceilings and a moat. The estate was previously home to a medieval...

Canceling Easter

Nasser Hussain

There’s no doubt that the so-called “woke” march toward cultural domination suffered a setback after the 2024 presidential election. But any suggestion of a major vibe shift may be...

Synodality Against Episcopacy?

George Weigel

After defining, within strict limits, the infallibility of papal teaching on faith and morals, the First Vatican Council intended to take up the parallel question of the authority of...

Three Takeaways from Our Post-Dobbs Moment

Charles C. Camosy

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned one of the most odious legal regimes ever foisted on the U.S. American people: that of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey....

What We’ve Been Reading—March

The Editors

Virginia Aabram I’m reading two books this Lent, the first of which is a reminder of what is real, and the second a reminder of what is not. The...