Public Life
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The Boys on the Brink
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Leonard Sax joins…
Roger Scruton’s Eternal Youth
In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk…
Life and Death in AI
In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your…
No Right to Erase Baptism
Is baptism an irreversible spiritual and ontological change or a piece of recorded personal data to be…
America’s Empty Confessionals
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, James M. O’Toole…
The Stench of Corruption
The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does…
Brave New Sexual Ethics
In this episode, Mark Regnerus joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
The Faithful Joy of Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen
Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore…
Standing Athwart AI, Yelling Stop
The editors discuss the AfD’s continued victories in Germany, the death of the assisted dying bill in…
Friendly Neighborhood Philosopher
Every now and then, a work of art comes along that helps us think through the thicket…
Talkin’ God and Football
Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening.…
The German Right’s Golden Moment
In this episode, Christopher Caldwell joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
Bin Laden’s Bequest
It came as a shock. The image of a plane disappearing into a building as flames erupt.…
The Death of Pub Culture
In London this summer, I walked past a pub sign near Trafalgar Square that read “Fully Air…
Pope Leo’s Unified Church
On today’s episode, Fr. James Martin joins Virginia and Germán. As a Catholic, growing up online meant…
