Public Life
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British Catholicism’s Bright and Various Future
"In the last few weeks,” the theologian Jacob Phillips recently remarked, “I’ve spoken at various Catholic events…
Kings, Behold and Wail
I was a full-time parish priest at a time when we still visited people in their homes.…
Inexpressible Gifts
How can we express thanks for an inexpressible gift? If someone brings a turkey to Thanksgiving dinner,…
Thanksgiving Linguistics
As we pause to give thanks for family, turkey, and Plymouth in the year 1621, take a…
How to Become a Low-Tech Family
Is there a life beyond the screen? In 2010, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows described what the internet…
My Judgment on Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg, Stanley Kramer’s 1961 film about the Nuremberg trials, is rightly deemed an American film…
The Department of Education May Be Gone, Finally
News came out last week that the Trump administration is stepping up efforts to dismantle the Department…
The Catholic Bill Buckley
This essay is adapted from a talk delivered at the Portsmouth Abbey School in 2010. In the…
A Cancellation in San Jose (ft. Elizabeth Weiss)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Elizabeth Weiss joins…
Charles Murray’s Return to Faith
Taking Religion Seriouslyby charles murrayencounter, 200 pages, $29.99 The academy is one of the most intellectually stultifying…
Taming the Tongue
On October 14, Politico reported on a group chat in which leaders of various Young Republicans groups…
A Tale of Two Constitutions
It never ceases to amaze me how clearly prominent intellectuals at the end of World War II…
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…
The Return of Old Lies
The task of the historian is typically that of spoiler. When someone at a dinner party declares…
