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Fire Upon the Earth

Charles J. Chaput Thomas Weinandy O.F.M. Cap.

Contempt for reli­­gious faith has been growing in America’s leadership classes for many decades, as scholars such…

Five Ways Elon Musk Can Improve the Digital Public Square

Jon Schweppe

Earlier this week, Twitter’s board of directors accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer ($54.20/share) to purchase the…

The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow

George Weigel

Pope Francis is undoubtedly grieved by the carnage in Ukraine. And when the Catholic Church’s chief ecumenical…

What Happened in the French Election

Theodore Dalrymple

When a man who is widely disliked or even hated wins a political election by a crushing…

Dispiriting Signs for the Synod on Synodality

Hans Feichtinger

Ever so slowly, the “Synod on Synodality” is beginning. A preparatory process of “listening and dialogue” in…

Religion in the Public Square

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Chad Pecknold joins the podcast…

Artists and Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

Many artists have grappled with how to depict abortion. Ernest Hemingway wrote an entire short story about…

The Power of Pain

Peter J. Leithart

Korean-born philosopher Byung-Chul Han completed his dissertation on Heidegger’s concept of Stimmung (mood) in 1994, and his…

Miseducation of the Millennials

Sohrab Ahmari

The Dumbest Generation Grows Up:From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adultsby mark bauerleinregnery gateway, 256 pages, $29.99 Not…

What a Tangled Web

Carl R. Trueman

Confusion over what it means to be human continues to dog public life in the West. Soon…

No “Just Wars”?

George Weigel

Every war is a defeat for humanity, because men and women endowed with reason should be able…

The Decline of the American Election

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Hans von Spakovsky joins the…

The Politics of American Christianity

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. George Yancey joins the podcast…

The Cancellation of Russian Culture

Gary Saul Morson

In the medieval era, when a thinker successfully claimed divine revelation, he placed his words beyond dispute.…

The Conservative Genius of Catholicism

Dan Hitchens

Once, Shaun Blanchard believed that Catholic truth was unalterable. “We Catholics stay the same; the Protestants change”:…