Europe’s Fate Is America’s Business
“In a second Trump term,” said former national security advisor John Bolton to the Washington Post almost exactly four years ago, “I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO.”
March 2026
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America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Failure of Bioethics
How Hipsters Gave Us Trump
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also…
A New Purity Culture
I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Well-thumbed copies of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Every Young Man’s…
Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong
In Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, hundreds of Australian foot soldiers, armed only with bayonets, are sent,…
Smooth Sailing
I regularly fume as I am caught in the chain of red lights that mark my rides…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
Europe’s Fate Is America’s Business
“In a second Trump term,” said former national security advisor John Bolton to the Washington Post almost…
Playing God, Becoming Nothing
This past week, I read three things that offered a glimpse of how empty the modern notion…
Remembering Angelo Gugel
Those who remember the epic pontificate of St. John Paul II may recall a tall, handsome layman…
The Real Significance of Moltbook
Elon Musk thinks we may be watching the beginning of the singularity. OpenAI and Tesla AI designer…
Why I’m Done with Notre Dame
I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left.…
The Case for Christian Nationalism
Recent polling paints a disturbing picture: Fewer than half of Gen-Z Americans are extremely or very proud…
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…
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…
The Serpent and the Dove
Late in the evening of Thursday, September 8, 1955, Communist Party officials in Shanghai launched a mass…
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…
Latch Hook
The only rug we had was on the wall—linoleum was what my mother knew—a woodsy scene, green…
God’s Justice and Ours
Before proceeding to discuss the morality of capital punishment, I want to make clear that my views…
The Still-Acceptable Prejudice
On October 5, Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett barely—just barely—won the approval of the Senate…
Catholicism & Capital Punishment
Among the major nations of the Western world, the United States is singular in still having the…
Moral Debate, Secular Correctness, and Judge Edith Jones
Is moral argument, particularly morality flowing from religious beliefs, taboo in criminal justice? A recent controversy highlights…
Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice
Justice is giving each what is due to him. So fundamental is the duty of public authority…
Is Capital Punishment Pro-Life?
This week Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill abolishing the death penalty in Illinois. His primary…
