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Illinois Coroners Push Back on Assisted Suicide Bill

Mary Kate Zander

Illinois state coroners recently gathered to discuss the proposed physician-assisted suicide bill that awaits a signature on…

Books for Christmas—2025

George Weigel

Surveys indicate that reading books is dropping precipitously across all age groups. This is a tragedy in…

Nick Fuentes and Richard Hanania’s Paganism

Bethel McGrew

The popularity of Nick Fuentes is in its way a fulfillment of Ross Douthat’s much-quoted ominous prophecy…

The Death of Daniel Kahneman

J. Mark Mutz

Daniel Kahneman was a Nobel laureate in economics, the author of the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and…

Christian Ownership Maximalism

Timothy Reichert

Christendom is gone. So, too, is much of the Western civilization that was built atop it. Christians…

How Suburbia Reshaped American Catholic Life

Stephen G. Adubato

n the third grade, my teacher asked if we knew the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I…

What Is Leo XIV’s Educational Vision?

Kyle Washut

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste…

Abandonment of Truth (ft. George Weigel)

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, George Weigel joins…

British Catholicism’s Bright and Various Future

John Duggan

"In the last few weeks,” the theologian Jacob Phillips recently remarked, “I’ve spoken at various Catholic events…

Kings, Behold and Wail

Ephraim Radner

I was a full-time parish priest at a time when we still visited people in their homes.…

Inexpressible Gifts

Hans Boersma

How can we express thanks for an inexpressible gift? If someone brings a turkey to Thanksgiving dinner,…

Thanksgiving Linguistics

Joshua T. Katz

As we pause to give thanks for family, turkey, and Plymouth in the year 1621, take a…

How to Become a Low-Tech Family

Peco & Ruth Gaskovski

Is there a life beyond the screen? In 2010, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows described what the internet…

My Judgment on Nuremberg

John M. Grondelski

Judgment at Nuremberg, Stanley Kramer’s 1961 film about the Nuremberg trials, is rightly deemed an American film…

The Department of Education May Be Gone, Finally

Mark Bauerlein

News came out last week that the Trump administration is stepping up efforts to dismantle the Department…