Editors

Thanks for Everything, Justice Kennedy
Matthew J. Franck, Public Discourse

Archbishop Kurtz on Same Sex Marriage Ruling, and Where the Church Goes from Here
Joseph Kurtz, Our Sunday Visitor

A North Dakota Oil Boom Goes Bust
Mara Van Ells, The Atlantic

The ACLU Abandons Support of Religious Freedom
Daniel Allott, Washington Examiner

As the Culture Shifts on Marriage, Evangelicals Stand Firm
Russell Moore, National Review

Antonin Scalia as the Measure of How Far We Have to Go
Edward Peters, In the Light of the Law

Why the Church Should Neither Cave Nor Panic About the Gay Marriage Decision.
Russell Moore, Washington Post

How to Protect Your Ministry from Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Lawsuits.
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

The Moral Case for Gentrification
Stephen Bayley, The Spectator

Judicial Activism on Marriage isn't the End—Here's What to Do Now.
Ryan T. Anderson, The Boston Globe

Supreme Court Decision On Marriage “A Tragic Error” 
Joseph Kurtz, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Who is the Philosopher Who Holds So Much Influence Over Pope Francis?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post

Confessions of a Catholic Novelist
William Giraldi, New Republic

The Incomprehensible Witness of Forgiveness
John Inazu, Hedgehog Review

The Dignity of Charleston Flies in the Face of the Left's Uninformed, Anti-South Bigotry
Jonah Goldberg, National Review

Three Headed Hydra
Michael Barone, Richard Epstein, R. R. Reno, Ricochet Podcast

Lessons from a Life of Hope: Learning from Father Richard John Neuhaus
Nathaniel Peters, Public Discourse

Victory in Spite of Ourselves
Hadley Arkes, Library of Law and Liberty

Disabled Protestors Demand Princeton Fire Professor Peter Singer
World Net Daily

Call Me Hyacinth
Hyacinth Grubb, O.P., Dominicana 

May the Rising Generation Redeem the Time?
Russell Kirk, The Imaginative Conservative

How to Read More Books
Erik Raymond, The Gospel Coalition

With Friends Like These
B. D. McClay, The Hedgehog Review

The Velvet Revolution
David Walsh-Little, America 

Don't Buy the Same-Sex Marriage Tidal Wave Illusion
Cathy Ruse, The Stream 

America's Oldest Synagogue Wrestles With Court Battle — and Its Own Decline
Paul Berger, Forward

Why the Saudis Are Going Solar
Jeffrey Ball, The Atlantic

The Courage to Be on the Wrong Side of History
Ryan Shinkel, Public Discourse

Clarence Thomas Takes on a Symbol of White Supremacy
Garrett Epps, The Atlantic  

The Rise and Fall of New York City's Private Social Clubs
James Nevius, Curbed

Where Christianity Ends
Ross Douthat, New York Times

A Former Fecundophobe’s Reflections On Fatherhood
Matthew Cochran, The Federalist

I picked up Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone (2012) because I am a sucker for novels about flappers and because I am a sucker generally. In the summer of 1922, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks (real personage) takes a train from Wichita to New York, there to study modern dance with Denishawn (real dance troupe). She is chaperoned by Mrs. Cora Carlisle (fictional personage), the not-quite-middle-aged wife of a wealthy Wichitan attorney. Cora has ulterior reasons for making this trip: 
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Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Progress. Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post  

The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Maria Konnikova, New Yorker

Treasure in Heaven
Peter Brown, Lapham's Quarterly

Ditch the Summer Reading List
Stephanie Cohen, Acculturated

The Trouble with Gay Marriage
Brendan O'Neill, Spiked!
(With thanks to our reader Katherine for the tip!)

Ran 7,000 Miles. Putin Still Got Them
Michael Weiss, Daily Beast

Witless Ape Rides Escalator
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review

The End of the Sex Abuse Crisis
Ross Douthat, New York Times

Benedict Option Baptists
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative

Daily Cartoon
Christopher Weyant, The New Yorker

Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Modernity: Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post