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The Catholic Bill Buckley
This essay is adapted from a talk delivered at the Portsmouth Abbey School in 2010. In the…
A Cancellation in San Jose (ft. Elizabeth Weiss)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Elizabeth Weiss joins…
Charles Murray’s Return to Faith
Taking Religion Seriouslyby charles murrayencounter, 200 pages, $29.99 The academy is one of the most intellectually stultifying…
Taming the Tongue
On October 14, Politico reported on a group chat in which leaders of various Young Republicans groups…
A Tale of Two Constitutions
It never ceases to amaze me how clearly prominent intellectuals at the end of World War II…
Outgrowing Nostalgia in The Ballad of Wallis Island
No man is an island,” John Donne declares in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. The Ballad of…
Overcoming Nihilism
Shoah is the Hebrew word for catastrophic ruin and unmitigated disaster. It appears in Psalm 35 as…
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...
Rosalía’s Restless Heart
In music,” writes the Italian priest Luigi Giussani, “what man pays homage to is something else, something…
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,…
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.…
