A Declaration of American Dignity
The State of the Union message to Congress is mandated in the Constitution. But it does not mandate what it has become: an annual spectacle that is a sort…
March 2026
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March 2026 Print Edition
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Failure of Bioethics
Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong
In Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, hundreds of Australian foot soldiers, armed only with bayonets, are sent,…
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…
Smooth Sailing
I regularly fume as I am caught in the chain of red lights that mark my rides…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
A Declaration of American Dignity
The State of the Union message to Congress is mandated in the Constitution. But it does not…
The Photo They Don’t Want You to See
The photo is haunting: A tiny baby boy, his minute legs pulled toward his visibly ribbed chest,…
AI and Jewish Mysticism
What is the proper spiritual posture from which to ask questions of a machine? Might formulating clever…
Goodbye, SSPX
As expected, the head of the SSPX, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, has sent a letter to Cardinal Fernández…
Lyric as Disclosure
Back in 2014, my wife and I bought a house on six acres of land several miles…
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.…
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…
