March 2026
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Letters
Glenn C. Loury makes several points with which I can’t possibly disagree (“Tucker and the Right,” January…
The Case for Christian Nationalism
Recent polling paints a disturbing picture: Fewer than half of Gen-Z Americans are extremely or very proud…
Lyric as Disclosure
Back in 2014, my wife and I bought a house on six acres of land several miles…
Love in the Time of Mass Migration
The unknown traveler shows up storm-tossed, naked, and hungry. He is bathed and clothed, the best wine…
Why I’m Done with Notre Dame
I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left.…
A New Purity Culture
I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Well-thumbed copies of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Every Young Man’s…
Smooth Sailing
I regularly fume as I am caught in the chain of red lights that mark my rides…
Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong
In Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, hundreds of Australian foot soldiers, armed only with bayonets, are sent,…
How Hipsters Gave Us Trump
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also…
Madness in Minneapolis
It’s tempting, given the pace of our news cycle these days, to resist the urge to crown…
Indispensable Plato
Over the past decade, somewhat surprisingly, many people have become born-again defenders of Western civilization...
The Serpent and the Dove
Late in the evening of Thursday, September 8, 1955, Communist Party officials in Shanghai launched a mass…
A Critique of the New Right Misses Its Target
American conservatism has produced a bewildering number of factions over the years, and especially over the last…
The Porn Supremacy
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto, wrote Terence. “I am human, nothing that is human…
Briefly Noted
There’s an old saw about G. K. Chesterton. Having been commissioned to write a follow-up to his…
History, Our Creator
Many find Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit daunting to read. I don’t pretend that it’s easy sledding. But…
Dilbert’s Wager
Niall Ferguson recently discussed his conversion to Christianity. He expressed hope for a Christian revival, which he…
Combating Vice
In my lifetime, American society has been transformed by widespread accommodation of vice. Marijuana has been legalized…
While We’re At It
January 8 marked the seventeenth anniversary of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’s death. We owe the existence of…
Latch Hook
The only rug we had was on the wall—linoleum was what my mother knew—a woodsy scene, green…
Terrarium
Look, here is grief,Her humid circuit riding, And here is God,Abiding. And here warm graceRuns down the lichen’s…
Hard Stop
So gradually, it seemed, the wayThings pass: the ice cube in the glassDisappears in a pool of…
Long Days
To my brother John. What happened to long days,the ones whose ends we couldn’tfathom till they came,and…
Caravaggio’s “Conversion of St. Paul”
(in the Cerasi Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo) Paul lies sprawled beneath his…
