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James Talarico’s Backward Christianity
James Talarico wants to “reclaim Christianity for the left.” That’s the title of the New York Times…
Just War Theory and Epic Fury
The machines of war have sprung into action once again in the Middle East. Bombs are falling…
How Secularization Happens
Way back in the day, when Elon Musk stalked the halls of the federal bureaucracy swinging his…
A Landmark Lawsuit, But Let’s Not Cheer Too Soon
Last month, a twenty-two-year-old woman named Fox Varian won a lawsuit against her prior doctors who coaxed…
Murder in Lyon
Quentin Deranque was twenty-three years old and a student in mathematics at the University of Lyon, France.…
The Roots of the Trans Violence Epidemic
Jesse Van Rootselaar and Robert Dorgan, two men pretending to be women, killed ten people in separate…
Playing God, Becoming Nothing
This past week, I read three things that offered a glimpse of how empty the modern notion…
Remembering Angelo Gugel
Those who remember the epic pontificate of St. John Paul II may recall a tall, handsome layman…
The Porn Supremacy
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto, wrote Terence. “I am human, nothing that is human…
“Wuthering Heights” Is for the TikTok Generation
Director Emerald Fennell knows how to tap into a zeitgeist. Her 2020 film Promising Young Woman captured…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
In December last year, the autonomous robotaxi firm Waymo took a notable victory lap. The occasion was…
Combating Vice
In my lifetime, American society has been transformed by widespread accommodation of vice. Marijuana has been legalized…
The Case of the Missing Mayor
On January 1, newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a solemn vow to his constituents: “I promise…
How Bad Bunny Mogged George Bush
On Sunday night, Americans had two options for the Super Bowl halftime show. The official NFL show…
Gavin Newsom’s Vogue Politics
When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, I was living in England and briefly became an…
