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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…
The Critic as Artist
In this episode, Dana Gioia joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
All Labor Is Labor
The Elizabethan commonplace comparing creative production to pregnancy and birth is baked into the English language. We…
The Unfashionable Faith of Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe, Reform UK’s immigration and justice spokesperson and a former Conservative member of Parliament, was found…
The Marxist Who Understood Sex Better than the UMC
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has removed Asbury Theological Seminary from its list of institutions approved to…
A Jewish Case Against the Naked Public Square
When people ask where I intern, I watch their faces carefully. I say: First Things, a journal…
World Cup Blues, of a Sort
CRACOW. I usually find the quadrennial FIFA World Cup aggravating for the five reasons enumerated below, plus…
Are Autonomous Weapons Consistent with Human Rights?
What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos…
