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The Return of Old Lies
The task of the historian is typically that of spoiler. When someone at a dinner party declares…
Finest Pieces of Plastic
Writing early in 1810, diplomat and scholar Georg Griesinger gave the most detailed surviving account...
Dignitatis Humanae Changing History
On December 7, 1965, Pope Paul VI solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom,…
The Rest as History
The Sabbath is making a comeback. Across the West, that most singular and ancient of weekly phenomena—a…
Colorado Needs Another Schooling on Religious Freedom
In Colorado, “universal” evidently means “everyone except those holding disfavored religious views.” Over the past two years,…
Rosalía’s Restless Heart
In music,” writes the Italian priest Luigi Giussani, “what man pays homage to is something else, something…
The Right’s Thirty-Year War
The battles raging on the right since Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes are not new. They…
The Meaning of Armenia’s Prayer Breakfast
This past weekend, Armenia, widely regarded as the “first Christian nation,” held its first national prayer breakfast.…
Self-Help from the Ancients (ft. Michael Fontaine)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Michael Fontaine joins…
The Common Sense of John Searle
The twentieth-century philosopher Wilfrid Sellars drew an influential distinction between “the manifest image,” which is the way…
The Collapse of Trans Identification
After a decade of record numbers showing young people identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum—in 2023, the…
Is the UK a Nation of Immigrants? (ft. Louise Perry)
In this episode, Louise Perry joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her recent…
Catholic Colleges Defy National Downturn
Fr. Dave Pivonka, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville, recalls receiving a recent essay of interest from…
Fossilized Faith
Christian Smith, a sociologist at Notre Dame, has a knack for turning academic research into books that…
Sportsmanship and the Season of Our Discontents
In early October, a dinner conversation with an old friend turned to why we both find the…
