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My Judgment on Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg, Stanley Kramer’s 1961 film about the Nuremberg trials, is rightly deemed an American film…
Taming the Tongue
On October 14, Politico reported on a group chat in which leaders of various Young Republicans groups…
Outgrowing Nostalgia in The Ballad of Wallis Island
No man is an island,” John Donne declares in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. The Ballad of…
Overcoming Nihilism
Shoah is the Hebrew word for catastrophic ruin and unmitigated disaster. It appears in Psalm 35 as…
Rosalía’s Restless Heart
In music,” writes the Italian priest Luigi Giussani, “what man pays homage to is something else, something…
The Right’s Thirty-Year War
The battles raging on the right since Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes are not new. They…
We Were Jesus Freaks
”Hey you, I’m into Jesus,” I sang, driving to school in my 1988 Buick Park Avenue, the…
Sportsmanship and the Season of Our Discontents
In early October, a dinner conversation with an old friend turned to why we both find the…
Canterbury Fails
When it was announced in October that the next archbishop of Canterbury would be a woman with…
False Patriots
November 5, 2024, was one of the most joyous days of my life. Like 77,302,580 of my…
Why Are Divorce Memoirs Trending?
Divorce rates may be down in the U.S. from their all-time high in the 1980s (although so…
The Era of AI Porn Is Here
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, recently announced that his software would soon allow users to…
The Death of Halloween
I fell in love with autumn as a child. Much as I enjoyed summer, I always longed…
Gen Z Longs for Home
A 2023 Harris Poll revealed something striking. Across all generations, most people agree that young people are…
Home, Not Real Estate
As a cultural touchstone, Saturday Night Live has been irrelevant for at least a decade now, or…
