Poetry as Prayer
by Peter J. LeithartMost of Kenneth Steven’s tales are simple, hardly worth the telling. But they’re the kind of tales that are the texture of life, like the stories we recount at the dinner table. Continue Reading »
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The Privatization of the Truth
by W. Joseph DeReuilBy dropping core requirements, universities are choosing license over formation. Continue Reading »
The Stories of the Pro-Life Cause
by Carl R. TruemanWhile abortion was a constitutional right, there seemed little reason to wrestle with the issue in depth. One could be pro-life or pro-choice, but in practice this did not affect most individuals’ engagement in the wider life of the nation. That is no longer the case. Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Warren, Woke Totalitarian
by George WeigelThus self-styled “pro-choice” advocates propose to constrain the choices available to women by driving compassionate and life-affirming care out of business through the porcine regulatory apparatus of the administrative state. Continue Reading »
Religion Is a Feature, not a Flaw
by Josh HoldenriedAmerica enjoys religious freedom because the framers understood that religion inculcates public morality. A free society, in which government intervention is limited, is not possible in a population enslaved to vice. Continue Reading »
Paradise Here and Now
by Samira KawashThe resurgent nationalisms of recent decades have been one response to the homogenizing impulses of globalization—but nation is not the solution to homelessness in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane. Continue Reading »
Cardinal John O’Connor, Pro-Life Leader
by Richard M. DoerflingerConsidering Cardinal O’Connor’s life of service in this cause, one is tempted to say, “we shall not see his like again.” But the inspiration he gave to others by his wisdom, energy, and fearlessness makes that a doubtful prediction. Continue Reading »
On Sleep and Dreams
by John WilsonI have been fascinated by sleep and dreams ever since I was a small boy in the 1950s. Continue Reading »
The Feminine Intellectual Vocation
by Marie Kawthar DaoudaEdith Stein argued that men and women alike are equally called to imitate God, but that they imitate the divine being in different ways.
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A Lonely Hart
by Gerald McDermottDavid Bentley Hart has never been a man of the Church, devoted to its orthodoxy, dedicated to the emerging wisdom of the Christian community and its Great Tradition. Continue Reading »
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