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A Surprisingly Subversive Sex Comedy
In his recent memoir, Communion, JD Vance talks about feeling “profoundly sad for today’s kids” navigating the…
Lindsay Clancy and the Trials of Modern Parenting
The Lindsay Clancy case has taken an odd turn online. Clancy is facing three counts of first-degree…
The False Promise of No Contact
Around the time nineteen-year-old Alice began cutting ties with her family, she announced on social media that…
The Fourth Watch
In this episode, James F. Keating joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…
The Douthat Decade
For conservative Christian nerds it is a hammer blow. Imagine the grief and shock if Taylor Swift…
The Spiritual Appeal of Democratic Socialism
As a proud “Reagan Democrat,” I felt blessed to be in Berlin a few days after the…
Jason Arday and the Merciless Lie
The fall of Cambridge wunderkind Jason Arday was the British press story of the summer. To any…
Crisis on the Campus
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Kevin D. Roberts…
Christianity Is Not a Tool
On today’s episode, writer Kelly Chapman joins Virginia and Germán. According to the discourse, it’s fashionable to…
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…
