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How Much Does Dilexi Te Reflect Leo XIV’s Thinking?
"Slogans do not lift people out of poverty,” Pope Leo XIV said in his address to the…
The Charisma of the Leader (ft. Molly Worthen)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Molly Worthen joins…
Reforming STEM to Strengthen the Nation
This article is adapted from a talk delivered at the 2025 National Conservatism Conference. Let the laser…
Digital IDs and the Dream of Universal Compliance
On his recent trip to India, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised the country’s Aadhaar digital identification…
Home, Not Real Estate
As a cultural touchstone, Saturday Night Live has been irrelevant for at least a decade now, or…
Trump’s IVF Policy Could Be Worse, But It’s Still Bad
The Trump administration’s IVF policy unveiled on Thursday is perhaps the least bad that we could have…
Metaphysics of Care
Shortly after I had a baby, I realized that what I had long understood by “feminism” had…
Germany’s Escalating Kulturkampf
The Jagdschloss Thiergarten in Donaustauf near Regensburg was destroyed by a fire on the night of October…
Sage Against the Machine
When I was a first-year doctoral student in England, a venerable Cambridge don whom I will not…
Education Is Not a Commodity
In a recent opinion piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education, University of Maryland classics professor Eric…
Indigenous London
Before London was a global city, it was just a city, and people lived there. Across its…
Third Ways and Other Ways
Charlie Kirk’s assassination has fired up a long-standing evangelical wrangle about “third-wayism.” Keen to avoid being boxed…
While We’re At It
According to the Wall Street Journal, construction spending on churches is up. For two decades, church attendance…
Sarah Mullally and Reforming the Anglican Communion
The Church of England has announced the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury.…
What Charles Taylor Got Wrong
Two decades ago, I was an undergraduate at McGill University, where Charles Taylor lectured. Taylor, born in…
