Tristyn K. Bloom

Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Double-Bind of Muslim Women’s Rights
Rochelle Terman, the Feminist Wire

What Marilynne Robinson Could Learn from Herself
Marybeth Davis Baggett, Christ and Pop Culture

Could Drive You to Drink
Nicole Gelinas, City Journal

World War I History Divides Balkan Schoolchildren
Denis Dzidic, Marija Ristic, Milka Domanovic, Josip Ivanovic, Edona Peci, Sinisa Jakov Marusic, Balkan Transitional Justice

Dressing for Failure: How the Death of Home Ec Unraveled American Fashion
Linda Przybyszewski, Time

A Friendly Game for a Beatific State
James Montague, the New York Times

A Response to Radner’s A Brutal Unity
William Cavanaugh, Syndicate

Patriarch Says He Will Discuss Middle East Christians with Pope
Francis X. Rocca, the National Catholic Reporter

A Terrible Beauty: The Gerry Adams Story Continues
Timothy Hoyt, War on the Rocks

Abortion, Slavery, and Constitutional Meaning
Nathaniel Peters, Public Discourse

“Screw it, Just Canonize Them All,” the Vatican Says
Eye of the Tiber

‘Hallowed Be Your Name’: Why Prayer Can Never Simply Be Private
Matthew Anslow, ABC Religion and Ethics

Perfectibilists
Joshua Glenn, HiLoBrow

Scavenger Cities
Chris White, Atlas Obscura

Barbarism with a Human Face
Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books

I Don’t Care Much About the Pope
Leah Libresco, Patheos

On Dignity and Evangelization
Matthew Dugandzic, Ethika Politika

Impact of War Losing Its Effect on Youth
Olga Kalashnikova, the St. Petersburg Times

Sociology in Fantasia
Bryan Alexander, Reason

The Orthodox Church in the Arab World: An Interview
Notes on Arab Orthodoxy

Evangelicals and Catholics Together Marks 20 Years
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service

Farmers: This Lady Wants Your Bones
Jesse Hirsch, Modern Farmer

Under the Volcano
Anthony Bourdain

The Tea Party Gets Into the News Biz
Joshua Green, Bloomberg Businessweek

Why Jews and Ukrainians Have Become Unlikely Allies
Josh Cohen, Foreign Policy

At Midnight, All the Economists
Gabriel Rossman, the American Scene

Pop Versus Politics: Russia Steels Itself for Eurovision Backlash
Boris Barabanov, Russia Beyond the Headlines

As long as it’s healthy. But what if it’s not?
Wifeytini

“My relationship with my son feels like a rough draft”: An Interview with Brian Gresko
Jude Stewart, the Believer Logger

Larger Than Life
Brian Doyle, America

How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance
Cory Doctorow, Locus Online

Spiderland and the Victorian Child
Stephanie Boland, the Toast

‘Botched’ Execution in Oklahoma Marks Church’s Shifting View of Death Penalty
Joan Frawley Desmond, the National Catholic Register

Serf Boards
Jason Huff, the New Inquiry

Conjuring the ’90s: 7 Thoughts on the Vatican’s ‘New’ Website
William Newton, Blog of the Courtier

Rethinking Property in the Digital Era
Jennifer McArdle, the National Interest

Your Media Diet is Immoral
Adam Gurri, the Umlaut

Notes on Chicken Paprikas
Rebecca Golden, the Airship

Painting a False Portrait
Bruce Cole, the New Criterion

Capital Punishment
Tyler Cowen, Foreign Affairs

Plato’s Stepchildren
B. D. McClay, the American Spectator

Queen Mary
John Norris, Politico Magazine

The Ugly, Lovable Americans of A Fish Called Wanda
Mike D’Angelo, the Dissolve

A Pleasure to Burn
Jonathan P. Eburne, Los Angeles Review of Books

On Their Death Bed, Books Have Finally Become Sexy
Mireille Silcoff, New York Times Magazine

Annual Report on the World’s Worst Religious Freedom Abusers Comes with a New Twist
Knox Thames and Elizabeth Cassidy, OnFaith

Abortion Affects Men, Too
Monica Heisey, Vice

Christian Formation and the Cost of the Culture Wars
A Queer Calling

May Day
Quinn Norton, Medium

Whither Protestantism
Matt Jenson, the Scriptorium Daily