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I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As a teenager, I was given a copy of ­Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon by a well-meaning family friend. It almost drove me away from the humanities....

Imagine that you work as a janitor in the office building of a large corporation. One evening you encounter the distraught CEO standing on a window ledge....

Every now and then, a work of art comes along that helps us think through the thicket of mysteries that is the human condition, shedding new light on the...

"Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just...

I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was twenty degrees in the daytime, five degrees at night. Two and a...

The World’s Reformation is a splendid achievement. Extensively researched, Alec Ryrie’s book covers an extraordinary global scope, and it is hard to imagine

Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in their common judgment that liberalism has reached a dead end. Something new...

Humanae Vitae remains alive, if not entirely well, fifty-eight years after its promulgation. When Pope Paul VI...

Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Homeric ­poem, I have yet to see anyone ask this simple question. Musk has accused Nolan of “desecrating” Homer, but his own preferred translation remains a mystery....

Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party, feeling sorry for herself. She doesn’t know anybody, the friends she arrived...

He thought he saw her in the orchid houseand all the flowers seemed to disappear,but someone with a younger, sharper faceand eyes less bright than hers, less cold and...

God never gives us more than we can take,”the midwife told us, after catching two—two—heartbeats in your sonogram. She knewthe kids we had at home and hoped to breakthe...

Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening. This is the secret to his success as the host of a...

Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature on September 6, Germany’s leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, ran a cover story...

Darializa Avila Chevalier—upper Manhattan’s new congressional candidate, backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and endorsed by Mamdani—is shaping up to be one of the most dangerous students...