The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
In December last year, the autonomous robotaxi firm Waymo took a notable victory lap. The occasion was an independent analysis of Waymo’s safety record based on data from nearly…
March 2026
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America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Failure of Bioethics
A New Purity Culture
I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Well-thumbed copies of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Every Young Man’s…
How Hipsters Gave Us Trump
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also…
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…
Is Church-Hopping a Real Problem?
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
In December last year, the autonomous robotaxi firm Waymo took a notable victory lap. The occasion was…
The Limits of Universalism: An Exchange
As an American Jew and close friend and colleague of Robert George, it is easy for me…
The Case of the Missing Mayor
On January 1, newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a solemn vow to his constituents: “I promise…
SSPX, the German Church, and the Crisis of Unity
The Society of St. Pius X’s recent announcement that it plans to consecrate new bishops in July,…
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…
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 Porn Supremacy
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto, wrote Terence. “I am human, nothing that is human…
Spurious Minds
American conservatism has produced a bewildering number of factions over the years, and especially over the last…
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…
Implied Consent
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act’s “contraception mandate”— the requirement…
A Nation Under God
Our country has a long tradition of official encouragement of religion on a non-sectarian basis. That tradition…
Taking Religious Freedom Seriously
Passage of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment (“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment…
The Ten Commandments in the Courthouse
Recently, I visited the New York State Courthouse in Jamaica, Queens. For readers who don’t know, Queens…
The Faith of the Founding
My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Walter Berns, has written that the philosophy of John Locke…
Keeping the Commandments
Given the contentiousness of public life in America today it was inevitable that the bulky stone monument…
