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John Wilsonโs Year of Reading
This list would have been different a couple of months ago, or yesterdayโmaybe even in the wee hours tonightโbut here are some of the books I particularly enjoyed (excluding...
What Does โPostliberalismโ Mean?
Many regard โpostliberalismโ as a political program. In 1993, when the tide of globalized liberalism was at its highwater mark, the contrarian John Gray published Post-Liberalism: Studies in Political...
Divine Ballet
This fall, Arthouse2B, in partnership with Ballet Hartford, hosted a performance named โBallet and the Theology Withinโ in New York City. The Big Apple is known for its ballet:...
Wassailing at Christmas
Every year on January 17, revelers gather in an orchard near the Butcherโs Arms in the Somerset village of Carhampton, in the Brendon Hills. There, โwassailersโ walk between the trees, splashing them with cider...
Canadaโs Combatting Hate Act Hates Religious Freedom
A new Canadian bill that seeks to strengthen existing hate speech law in the country has worrying implications for expressive and religious freedoms. Tabled in September, the Combatting Hate...
Make Me A Lutheran
John Fisher, the renowned Bishop of Rochester, is known to history chiefly for having been put to death by King ยญHenry VIII...
Keep Lighting Candles
On December 23, 1981, President Ronald Reagan called for Americans to place a lighted candle in the window on Christmas Eve. He did so at the request of Romuald...
What Vivek Gets Wrong About Citizenship
December is here. The air is chill, the leaves have fallen, and children are preparing for school break, looking forward to wrapping presents in the glow of a decorous...
Andrea Grillo and the End of His Usefulness
No one with any knowledge of Roman universities would be the least surprised to hear that SantโAnselmo, a pontifical university with a reputation for liturgical studies, harbors a professor...
Tucker and the Right
Something like a civil war is unfolding within the American conservative movement. It is not merely a dispute about policy agendas, foreign alliances, or the boundaries of political discourse. It is a deeper conflictโa struggle over the meaning of conservatism itself...
The Wealthy Chinese Buying Babies and American Citizenship
"In the foreseeable future, China and the U.S. will be the two strongest countries in the world. . . . It will definitely be a win-win situation for your children in the future...
Trumpโs Marijuana Order Could Be a Terrible Mistake
President Trump recently issued an executive order directing the rescheduling of marijuana under the Federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) from Schedule I to Schedule III. Schedule I substances are...
Restoring Breadth and Depth to Education (ft. Solveig Gold)
In the โlatest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Solveig Gold joins in to discuss her recent article, co-authored with Joshua Katz, entitled “Make...
Lessons from the Christmas Gospels
The Roman Missal provides four distinct Mass texts for the celebration of the Nativity of the Lord: the โVigil Mass,โ the โMass During the Night,โ the โMass at Dawn,โ...
Work Is for the Worker
In these early days of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has made one thing clear: The responsible use of AI will be one of his central themes. It has...