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The Church Among the Deathworks
In his fascinating new book, Hegel’s Century, intellectual historian Jon Stewart comments that Hegel’s Lectures on the…
Lose the Culture, Lose the Family
Many factors influence decisions to marry and have children: prevailing religious commitments, ideas of beauty and honor,…
What Sally Rooney Thinks Reading Is For
Of all the silly things smart people believe are true, my favorite is the idea that the…
On Not Buying into the Mythology of “Prestige” Universities
Some years ago, a Catholic prep school invited me to address its parents’ association on the future…
The Body is More Than a Tool
The amicus brief filed in the Dobbs case on behalf of more than five hundred women athletes…
Mytho-History in Genesis
I’m grateful to Peter Leithart for his thought-provoking response to “The Historical Adam.” A couple of points…
Robert George on Overturning Roe
Legal scholar and political philosopher Robert George, who recently filed an amicus brief with John Finnis arguing…
Bellarmine at 400
The 400th anniversary of the death of Robert Bellarmine (September 17, 1621) invites a look back at…
A Bold Catholic Investment In Inner-City Education
It’s a safe bet that “Mother Mary Lange” is not a household name in most U.S. Catholic…
More Teachings of Don John
A prefatory note to readers under forty (or should it be under fifty?): In 1968 (quite a…
A True Shepherd
When Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński is beatified on Sunday in Warsaw, this colossus of the postwar Polish Church…
Judging the Sins of Our Fathers
Winston Churchill famously quipped that history would be kind to him, for he intended to write it.…
The Virtue of Solidarity
Earlier this month, I participated in the First Things Intellectual Retreat on Solidarity. The retreat—seminars, lectures, and panels…
OnlyFans and the Sexual Revolution
A few years ago I read a fascinating report from a journalist who had attended an “Adult Entertainment…
The Impossible Goal of “COVID Zero”
In 1901, Australia’s six colonies united in a single Commonwealth, marking the emergence of a new country…
