Sympathy For the Devil

by Francis X. Maier

The Family Story Project attempts to “dismantle family privilege” by casting the traditional family as diseased and oppressive.  Continue Reading »

31 Aug 2020

Letters

by Various

Geoffrey Hill Like Garrick Davis (“Geoffrey Hill, Prodigal,” August/September), I too had the fortune of having Geoffrey Hill as an instructor. In 2004, I was a student in the Boston University writing seminars, and a few of us from the writing program took Hill’s Gerard Manley Hopkins seminar . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

Culture War As Class War

by Darel E. Paul

The ongoing uproar after the election of Donald Trump led the sociologist James Davison Hunter to reflect in a fresh way on the engines driving political conflict and social division. Back in the early 1990s, he popularized the phrase “culture war,” the now-indispensable term to describe the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Choosing to Refuse

by John Waters

The Human Rights Campaign has made a habit of attacking Christians who defend traditional sexual morality. Continue Reading »

17 Jul 2018

Common Prayer, or Predictable Politics?

by Carl R. Trueman

Christian liturgy—and God himself—have become victims of the abolition of the pre-political. Continue Reading »

10 Jul 2018

No Victory for
Religious Liberty

by Darel E. Paul

The Masterpiece Cakeshop decision is not a win for religious liberty in America. Continue Reading »

5 Jun 2018

Francis Canavan: A Jesuit for the Confused and Distressed

by William Doino Jr.

When Fr. Francis Canavan died in 2009, the Society of Jesus lost one of its finest men, as did America. Continue Reading »

10 Jan 2018

It's a Culture War, Stupid

by George Weigel

As long as health care systems like Canada's continue to euthanize patients instead of providing end-of-life care, the Church must continue fighting the culture wars. Continue Reading »

22 Aug 2017

Advent in the Deathworks

by R. J. Snell

Our elites are characterized by their pursuit of de-creation—an unending total war against the sacred order and its adherents. Continue Reading »

22 Dec 2016

Recalibrating the Culture War in 2016

by Darrell Bock

We still live in a contested environment. The candidate who flouted political correctness won. But his victory does not necessarily represent a victory for religious conservatives. Continue Reading »

29 Nov 2016