Dan Hitchens

How far may a Catholic go in openly criticizing the Vicar of Christ? Continue Reading »

The terror and dismay of Remainers have helped to demonstrate the non-existence of Enlightenment Man, the thinker who stands only on logic and waves away every distraction. Continue Reading »

How do traditional proofs for God's existence fare in our technological era? Continue Reading »

James McAuley had a gift for overcoming first impressions. Manning Clark, the future ­doyen of Australian historians, met the twenty-five-year-old poet in the crowd at an Aussie Rules game. McAuley was blind drunk, full of wild slogans about art and politics, and looked wrecked even by the usual . . . . Continue Reading »

The archdiocese of Braga, Portugal, now asks divorced-and-remarried Catholics to discern for themselves whether they should receive the Sacrament.  Continue Reading »

Samuel Johnson understood that a society without truth—a society of “fake news”—would inevitably collapse. Continue Reading »

Throughout history, Christmas has inspired poems from believers and atheists alike. Continue Reading »

Trying to really believe in Communism now would be like trying to believe in Moloch or Anubis. The willingness to give up everything, which animated previous generations of revolutionaries, has vanished. Continue Reading »

Pius XI’s words had such force because he bound himself to what had already been believed by Catholics throughout history and had been reaffirmed by his predecessors.  Continue Reading »

For Christians, freedom consists not in how many choices you have but in whether you can choose the right thing. Continue Reading »