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Is the Influencer the New Party Boss?
As Abdul El-Sayed celebrates his election as the first-ever Muslim U.S. senator, the GOP and president scramble to assign blame, and progressives prime themselves to take control of their...
Nostos in the Ninth
When Roy Hobbs digs his spikes into the clay—bottom of the ninth, two outs, down by two, blood seeping through his jersey from an old gunshot wound—the whole of...
Tangled up in Blue
The editors discuss the blue wave in the midterm elections, the 39th Annual Erasmus Lecture, and Bob Dylan’s audience with Pope Leo XIV. The conversation is embedded below. For...
The Pro-Life Movement’s Midterm Reckoning
"It’s impossible to sugarcoat it,” Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America wrote in a memo issued on November 3. The 2026 midterm election results “are a disaster…
Voters Want Regime Change
If you only look at the numbers, the midterm results were not remarkable. Voters often rebuke presidential administrations at the midway point. But we rightly sense that this election...
Harvard’s Quiet Catholic Revival
It is entirely reasonable that the rise in young converts to the Catholic Church has happened outside of her most prominent universities. Apart from a select few whose students...
Francis Bacon’s Tender Mercies
The most desperate and most heartfelt prayers are those begging God for mercy. Francis Bacon (1561–1626), one of the greatest founding fathers of modern philosophy and thus of modern...
White Martyr Family
Imagine yourself seventy-eight, diabetic, falsely convicted in a sham trial of threatening national security, imprisoned for over 2,200 days in a maximum-security solitary confinement cell from which you’re only...
The Death of Catholic Glasgow
October brought the news that Catholics in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, had long dreaded. Falling Mass attendance has hollowed out parishes across the metropolis, and a vocations...
A Cautionary Tale for Methodist Bishops
The dispute between Highland Park Methodist Church (HPMC) and the Horizon Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) has entered the national conversation. Ruth Graham covered the story...
Today’s Global Witness of Christian Martyrs
Within just one week, two massacres of Christians took place that went almost unnoticed. In Jordan, nine Christians were killed and dozens more wounded during a funeral procession at...
Civics Education Is Survival
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Paul O. Carrese joins in to discuss his recent book, Teaching America. The conversation is...
Inside the Roman Mind
It is seven years since the publication of Dominion by Tom Holland, the much-discussed book in which the English historian set out the case for Christianity’s fundamental rewiring of the Western mind...
Earnest Lives: New and Notable Books
Ralph Waldo Emerson once declared, “All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons”—a good example of transcendentalist bluster. Samuel Johnson was less grandiose...
Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook Fumble
In 2014, Aaron Sorkin published an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that journalists should refuse to write about any of the private information, including emails, leaked...