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Most Americans seem to think of the major Protestant denominations as if they were founded with the names we now use. In truth, the names were often forced by...

In this episode, Christopher Caldwell joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Why the AfD Wins” from the October 2026 issue of...

I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As a teenager, I was given a copy of ­Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon by a well-meaning family friend. It almost drove me away from the humanities....

I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was twenty degrees in the daytime, five degrees at night. Two and a...

Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening. This is the secret to his success as the host of a...

Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in their common judgment that liberalism has reached a dead end. Something new...

Humanae Vitae remains alive, if not entirely well, fifty-eight years after its promulgation. When Pope Paul VI...

I’m grateful for Stephan Pax Leonard’s essay on his conversion to Orthodoxy (“Why I Became Orthodox,” June/July 2026)...

The big news story of early August was Jason Arday. Appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023, the black scholar had been championed by university leaders as...

"Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just...

Imagine that you work as a janitor in the office building of a large corporation. One evening you encounter the distraught CEO standing on a window ledge....

The World’s Reformation is a splendid achievement. Extensively researched, Alec Ryrie’s book covers an extraordinary global scope, and it is hard to imagine

Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Homeric ­poem, I have yet to see anyone ask this simple question. Musk has accused Nolan of “desecrating” Homer, but his own preferred translation remains a mystery....

He thought he saw her in the orchid houseand all the flowers seemed to disappear,but someone with a younger, sharper faceand eyes less bright than hers, less cold and...

God never gives us more than we can take,”the midwife told us, after catching two—two—heartbeats in your sonogram. She knewthe kids we had at home and hoped to breakthe...