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Gary Alan Fine at the New York Times finds Penn State’s “vacating” of victories from the sports history of the school from 1998 to 2011 a move Orwell might...

As of yesterday, doctors in South Dakota  must advise patients seeking abortions of the increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions that come with it. Obviously contested, we’re told...

The tiny township of Corigliano d’Otranto, a small village on Italy’s heel, believes itself to be the country’s most philosophical hamlet. It might have something to do with the...

Writing for cityArts , Maureen Mullarkey reviews a new exhibition at the DC Moore Gallery, American (ir)religiosity :  Censorship battles over sexually explicit imagery have been won. That old...

Reparative Therapy Renounced  Erik Eckholm, New York Times Even More About NFIB v. Sebelius Tom Christina, Library of Law & Liberty David Oderberg’s New Location Via Edward Feser, David...

Herbert Hoover’s American Exceptionalism John Hendrickson, Library of Law and Liberty Same-Sex Marriage and the Revolt Against Metropolitan Jonah Fr. Johannes Jacobse, American Orthodox Institute What’s in a Name,...

Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Movement Joe Alicea, Public Discourse Does Quantum Physics Make It Easier to Believe in God? Stephen M. Barr, Big Questions Online Paint-by-Number...

First Things warmly welcomes a new Junior Fellow, Anna Williams, who flew in to New York City just yesterday evening. A brief bio: Anna Williams is a recent graduate...

Sex Abuse and the Study of Religion Kathryn Lofton, Immanent Frame RJN and the HHS “Catholic Moment” C.J. McCloskey III, Catholic Thing “Only Liberty?” Patrick Brennen, Mirror of Justice...

The Varieties of Nihilistic Experience, Part II Anthony Distefano, Catholic Phoenix Elusive God Particle: Found Steve O’Connor, Belfast Telegraph  Romney’s Ceasefire on Obamacare? Bryon York, The Examiner  The New...

Fortnight for Freedom: Whose Religious Liberty? Jessica Coblentz, Religion & Politics  Religion, Brain, and Behavior Michael Neilson, PsyRel A Reply to Steve Fuller Edward Feser, Edward Feser  Swimming the...

Feeling footloose and frisky, a feather-brained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the family finances. He flew far to foreign fields and frittered his fortune feasting fabulously...

Dominicana , the publication of the Dominican students of the St. Joseph Province, is supporting the Catholic bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom by providing free access to “Salt and Light:...

David Deavel, writing for  Unique for a Reason , explores the difficulties that homosexuals who are interested in living celibate, orthodox Christian lives often meet with from within the...

Some attention was given to China’s one-child policy with Vice President Joe Biden off-handedly expressed sympathy for it, but the moral horror the policy evokes in most has yet...