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Western Muslims for Public Christianity
In Europe, barely a week goes by without news of another public or private institution ridding itself of the trappings of cultural Christianity—whether canceling Easter or Christmas, abolishing longstanding...
The Real History of Black Progress (and Regress)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Jason Riley joins in to discuss his recent book, The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks...
Cherokee, Cornfields, and Catalogues
If the mere words “forthcoming books” set your heart aflutter, you know we’re on the eve of a new publishing season. In the old days, that would have meant...
Restoring Holy Family Church: A Bridge of Faith Amid War
Six months after Hamas brutally attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,195 people and taking 250 hostages, I traveled to the Holy Land. During my visit there—cut short...
More and More and More
Thomas More: A Lifeby joanne paulpegasus books, 624 pages, $39.95 Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Collins described the new biography Thomas More: A Life as a “worthy...
Christianity Is Nothing Without Dogma
Even as I was writing my column on the irrelevance of mainline Christianity two weeks ago, the Church in Wales was providing yet more evidence of the self-inflicted nature...
The Subversive Brilliance of Barbie
Barbie is back. Following the success of Greta Gerwig’s iconic blockbuster, which grossed over $1.44 billion worldwide, Mattel Studios, Universal, and Illumination have signed a deal to develop a...
Meeting the World to Convert the World
In a June post at the website Where Peter Is, author Steven Millies, having ritually denounced the “senseless [Catholic] culture war quarrel” and taken another tiresome sideswipe at Bishop...
The Happiness Gap Between Liberal and Conservative Women
For decades, the prevailing narrative urged young women to “lean in,” to hustle, to shatter glass ceilings. The “girlboss” era promised liberation through careerism and independence, often at the...
Did Vatican II Replace One-Sided Papalism with One-Sided Episcopalism?
As everyone knows, the Second Vatican Council was an extraordinary event, with ramifications not simply for Catholicism but for virtually the entire world. The conciliar theologians knew the tradition...
A Catholic Convert’s Perspective on the Jubilee Year
As a former low-church Protestant who joined the Catholic Church, I had to adjust to its reliance on rituals that may seem out of place in today’s culture. I...
The Waxing and Waning of Christian Zionism
From the publication of Hal Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth (1970) to the end of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’s Left Behind series (2007), premillennial dispensationalism promoted Christian Zionism...
Kids Need the Classics
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Nathan Antiel joins in to discuss Classical Education, Classical Academic Press, and Humanitas. The conversation is...
Theology for a Brave New World
In this episode, Fr. Thomas Joseph White joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “The Future of Catholic Theology,” from the August/September 2025...
Democracy Needs Religion—but Which?
German sociologist Hartmut Rosa characterizes modernity as the product of a triple acceleration. Technology speeds up movement and communication, technological change itself keeps accelerating, and, as a result, social...
