Family
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Love in the Academic Ruins
The English Department is sick unto death. The signs are all there: an aging tenured professoriate; a…
Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Grace
Jessica Hooten Wilson recently commented that because author Marilynne Robinson views all of created life as a…
Heroic Domesticity
The Book of Proverbs seems to be a collection of wisdom-bytes, organized in a desultory manner. This…
Against Pro-Life Incrementalism
A crop of center-right commentators offered the pro-life movement some strategy tips last week. Responding to apparent…
An Open Letter to Georgetown Visitation
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, a Catholic girls’ school run by the Salesian Sisters of the Order of…
Age of Fear
Me: You said recently—probably on Twitter—that for the last year or so you’ve been reading books in…
Notre Dame Students Against Porn
As a student at the University of Notre Dame, I have always been taught to try to…
A Christian Gentleman in the Nation’s Capital
On May 8, the Library of Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars co-hosted a…
Chimpanzee Disaster
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dreamby carson vaughanlittle a, 266 pages, $24.95 For two decades,…
Ever Devotedly in Notre Dame
Given the attention paid to Fr. Theodore Hesburgh these days, interested parties would do well to consult…
Fear and the Benedict Option
When people ask me if the Benedict Option is a call to hospitality or to hunker down,…
You Are Old, Father William
Everyone who writes about aging “Boomers”—how “they” have ruined “our” society, and so on, ad nauseum—should be…
Tradition and Fertility in Eastern Europe
After more than a decade as a demographic laggard, eastern Europe is having a slight “baby boom.”…
Australia’s Poet
The Australian poet Les A. Murray (1938–2019) was born in Nabiac on the north coast of New…
Faith Amid Corruption
The Catholic Church in the West is full of corruption—financial, sexual, and spiritual. We are forced to…
