American Politics

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The Bitter Truth About Our Economy and Ourselves

Pete Spiliakos

The jobs environment for low-skill workers is finally improving. Unemployment for our least-skilled workers is down to…

Questions of Competence

George Weigel

It’s a safe bet that 99.95 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of…

The Very Model of a Modern Catholic Statesman?

John M. Howting

British Tory Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg is gaining a massive following on social media. Young people…

Ruth to Naomi

Thomas Banks

Narrow the house may be and poor,But should it be where you will stay,Then I will want…

Burns in Glory

Timothy Murphy

The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, Volume I: Commonplace Books, Tour Journals, and Miscellaneous…

Dying of Despair

Aaron Kheriaty

On November 4, 2014, ­­sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High…

Tate Unmodern

James Matthew Wilson

Allen Tate: The Modern Mind and the Discovery of Enduring Loveby john v. glass iiithe catholic university…

Pontifex Minimus

Paul V. Mankowski

Building a Bridge:How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect,…

Caribbean Rhapsode

Garrick Davis

The great poet of the Caribbean, Derek Walcott, passed away at home on his native island of…

Make Hell Hot Again

Marc Barnes

I have a problem with hell that goes beyond squeamishness. The problem is one of inserting the damned…

Paradise Possible

Michael J. Lewis

Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Ideaby erik reecefarrar, straus and giroux, 368 pages,…

A Test for Classical Christian Students

Mark Bauerlein

“No more teaching to the test!” is the battle cry of the growing anti-testing movement in primary…

Teaching Submission After Trump

Nathan Ristuccia

The University of Chicago does not support so-called trigger warnings. At least, that is what the dean…

Are Jihadis “Losers”?

George Weigel

When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew…

What Are We For?

Cole S. Aronson

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and…