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Jason Arday and the Merciless Lie

Bethel McGrew

The fall of Cambridge wunderkind Jason Arday was the British press story of the summer. To any…

Crisis on the Campus

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Kevin D. Roberts…

Christianity Is Not a Tool

Germán S. Díaz del Castillo Virginia Aabram

On today’s episode, writer Kelly Chapman joins Virginia and Germán. According to the discourse, it’s fashionable to…

Jason Arday and the Therapeutic Academy

Darel E. Paul

Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal…

Bourdain’s World Was Not Enough

Germán S. Díaz del Castillo

In his breakout 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain recounts his early…

Have American Catholics Given Up on Evangelizing?

Francis X. Maier

Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never…

Love in a Godless Age

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Ralph C. Hancock…

Ceuta’s Camp of the Saints Moment

Nathan Pinkoski

Last week, some 70,000 African migrants invaded Ceuta. A coastal town of 84,000 people, Ceuta is the…

Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women

Sarah Reardon

Like models in a fashion show, gaudy but unfulfilling icons of femininity parade before the women of…

The Work Ethic Incarnate

George Weigel

In his June 2 Wall Street Journal column, Jason L. Riley noted a disturbing trend in our…

The Man Who Built the Trojan Horse

John Byron Kuhner

Tourism makes fact seem fiction. I feel confident Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and I…

The Wandering Bishops

Damian Thompson

Immediately after the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four new bishops in an Alpine meadow…

Icarus Descending

Aaron Kheriaty

"She’ll never see the boy falling out of the sky,” sings Mumford & Sons in “Icarus.” As…

A Catholic Moment or an Evangelical Century?

Timon Cline

Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in…

America Has Always Been a Christian Nation

Riley M. Moore

America is a Christian nation. It was at its birth, and despite increasing attacks on this reality,…