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John Wilsonโ€™s Year of Reading

John Wilson

This list would have been different a couple of months ago, or yesterdayโ€”maybe even in the wee hours tonightโ€”but here are some of the books I particularly enjoyed (excluding...

What Does โ€œPostliberalismโ€ Mean?

R. R. Reno

Many regard โ€œpostliberalismโ€ 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

Nina Tarpley

This fall, Arthouse2B, in partnership with Ballet Hartford, hosted a performance named โ€œBallet and the Theology Withinโ€ in New York City. The Big Apple is known for its ballet:...

Wassailing at Christmas

Francis Young

Every year on January 17, revelers gather in an orchard near the Butcherโ€™s Arms in the Somerset village of Carhampton, in the Brendon Hills. There, โ€œwassailersโ€ walk between the trees, splashing them with cider...

Canadaโ€™s Combatting Hate Act Hates Religious Freedom

Anna Farrow

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

Richard Rex

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

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding

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

Colin Redemer

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

Joseph Shaw

No one with any knowledge of Roman universities would be the least surprised to hear that Santโ€™Anselmo, a pontifical university with a reputation for liturgical studies, harbors a professor...

Tucker and the Right

Glenn C. Loury

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 conflictโ€”a struggle over the meaning of conservatism itself...

The Wealthy Chinese Buying Babies and American Citizenship

Emma Waters

"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...

Trumpโ€™s Marijuana Order Could Be a Terrible Mistake

Joseph Prudโ€™homme

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)

Mark Bauerlein

In the โ€‹latest 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

George Weigel

The Roman Missal provides four distinct Mass texts for the celebration of the Nativity of the Lord: the โ€œVigil Mass,โ€ the โ€œMass During the Night,โ€ the โ€œMass at Dawn,โ€...

Work Is for the Worker

Ricky McRoskey

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...