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Antidotes to Postmodern Lunacy

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Gad Saad joins the podcast…

Totalitarian Democracy

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Roger Kimball joins the podcast…

American Catholics and the Cold War

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. D. G. Hart discusses his…

France’s Islamist Problem Is Everyone’s Problem

Samuel Gregg

Allāhu akbar!” These were among the last words heard by the three Catholics killed by a knife-wielding…

Religion and the Presidency

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Kenneth L. Woodward argues that…

The Expert Bubble Begins to Burst

John William O'Sullivan

As Lao Tzu wrote, the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Humans and…

Socialism Doesn’t Work

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Charles Mizrahi…

Trump, Biden, and Religion in American Politics

Carl R. Trueman

The old adage that England and America are two nations divided by a common language contains much…

The Sixties Never Ended

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Fred…

Joe Biden, Pre-Conciliar Catholic?

George Weigel

The image of the pre-conciliar Catholic Church in the United States as catechetically effective and politically potent…

Baseball’s Beginnings

John Wilson

Sixty-six years ago, I saw my first Major League Baseball game, in the 1954 World Series between…

Why the Senate Should Confirm Judge Barrett

Mark Movsesian

 Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is appearing…

The Art of Criticism

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Carlin Romano joins the…

Diversity At the Oscars

Filip Mazurczak

After controversies about the lack of representation of racial minorities at the Oscars, the Academy of Motion…

The Vice of Curiosity

Hans Boersma

This year’s lectionary readings for the matriculation service at the seminary where I teach were rather curious.…