Foreign Affairs

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Modern Restlessness

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Benjamin Storey joins the…

Leavening Liberalism

R. R. Reno

Peter Leithart’s recent contribution to the failure-of-liberalism genre opens with an arresting claim: “Liberalism is centrally an…

Born and Unborn: Answering Objections to Constitutional Personhood

John Finnis

Are there sufficient reasons for the Court to hold that the unborn are persons within the meaning…

Books, Baseball, and Cool Papa Bell

John Wilson

Where were you thirty years ago, on Opening Day of the 1991 Major League Baseball season? I…

The Lesson of Leaven

Cole S. Aronson

About fifteen years ago, on the third or fourth day of Passover, some relatives took me and…

Friendship After COVID

Erica Brown

I long to offer maskless casual greetings to colleagues, to clerks in my regular shopping ambit, and…

Learning from the O Antiphons

C. C. Pecknold

St. Anne came to my wife in a dream once. The grandmother of Jesus gently touched my…

The Gospel and the Natural Law

Andrew T. Walker

In the Baptist church of my childhood, we often sang the hymn “He Paid a Debt He…

Homeless in Advent

Hans Boersma

Nothing is as debilitating as homelessness. Home is where the heart is. To not have a home…

Ron Howard’s Disappointing Hillbilly Elegy

Gracy Olmstead

Discussions of J. D. Vance’s 2016 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis…

The Battered Priesthood

Thomas G. Guarino

I was astonished to read recently that the archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, is seeking to…

What We’ve Been Reading—September 2020

The Editors

Mark Bauerlein nContributing Editor E. D. Hirsch’s How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge…

America’s Point of No Return

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Anton joins the podcast…

The Arrow of Time

John Wilson

If you are interested in “time” and how people think about it, write about it, talk about…

The Next Pope and the Crisis of the West

George Weigel

In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, S.J., about a project in which…