Foreign Affairs
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Modern Restlessness
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Benjamin Storey joins the…
Leavening Liberalism
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
Are there sufficient reasons for the Court to hold that the unborn are persons within the meaning…
Books, Baseball, and Cool Papa Bell
Where were you thirty years ago, on Opening Day of the 1991 Major League Baseball season? I…
The Lesson of Leaven
About fifteen years ago, on the third or fourth day of Passover, some relatives took me and…
Friendship After COVID
I long to offer maskless casual greetings to colleagues, to clerks in my regular shopping ambit, and…
Learning from the O Antiphons
St. Anne came to my wife in a dream once. The grandmother of Jesus gently touched my…
The Gospel and the Natural Law
In the Baptist church of my childhood, we often sang the hymn “He Paid a Debt He…
Homeless in Advent
Nothing is as debilitating as homelessness. Home is where the heart is. To not have a home…
Ron Howard’s Disappointing Hillbilly Elegy
Discussions of J. D. Vance’s 2016 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis…
The Battered Priesthood
I was astonished to read recently that the archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, is seeking to…
What We’ve Been Reading—September 2020
Mark Bauerlein nContributing Editor E. D. Hirsch’s How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge…
America’s Point of No Return
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Anton joins the podcast…
The Arrow of Time
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
In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, S.J., about a project in which…