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Jason Arday and the Therapeutic Academy
Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal…
Bourdain’s World Was Not Enough
In his breakout 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain recounts his early…
Have American Catholics Given Up on Evangelizing?
Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never…
Love in a Godless Age
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Ralph C. Hancock…
Ceuta’s Camp of the Saints Moment
Last week, some 70,000 African migrants invaded Ceuta. A coastal town of 84,000 people, Ceuta is the…
Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women
Like models in a fashion show, gaudy but unfulfilling icons of femininity parade before the women of…
The Work Ethic Incarnate
In his June 2 Wall Street Journal column, Jason L. Riley noted a disturbing trend in our…
The Man Who Built the Trojan Horse
Tourism makes fact seem fiction. I feel confident Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and I…
The Wandering Bishops
Immediately after the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four new bishops in an Alpine meadow…
Icarus Descending
"She’ll never see the boy falling out of the sky,” sings Mumford & Sons in “Icarus.” As…
A Catholic Moment or an Evangelical Century?
Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in…
America Has Always Been a Christian Nation
America is a Christian nation. It was at its birth, and despite increasing attacks on this reality,…
Berlin and the Contradictions of Identity Politics
On July 25, twenty-one-year-old Abdul Ballout drove a van into a crowd at Berlin’s Pride festival before…
The Sun Also Rises at 100
The Hemingway style—terse, direct, formidable, in both prose and personal deportment—dominated American literature and the native ideal…
How the Press Lost Public Trust
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Tara Henley joins…
