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Murder in Lyon
Quentin Deranque was twenty-three years old and a student in mathematics at the University of Lyon, France. A recent convert to Catholicism, he attended Saint-Georges, a church of the...
The Roots of the Trans Violence Epidemic
Jesse Van Rootselaar and Robert Dorgan, two men pretending to be women, killed ten people in separate mass shootings within a single week. Both exhibited documented histories of serious...
Dilbertโs Wager
Niall Ferguson recently discussed his conversion to Christianity. He expressed hope for a Christian revival, which he framed as the best antidote to the Great Awokening that has done...
Why I Stay at Notre Dame
I have been associated with the University of Notre Dame since 1984, first as a graduate student in mathematics and then in philosophy. In 2003, I became a tenured...
What Virgil Teaches America (ft. Spencer Klavan)
In this episode, Spencer A. Klavan joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, โIn the Footsteps of Aeneasโ from the February 2026...
Playing God, Becoming Nothing
This past week, I read three things that offered a glimpse of how empty the modern notion of what it means to be human really is. The first was...
Europeโs Fate Is Americaโs Business
"In a second Trump term,โ said former national security advisor John Bolton to the Washington Post almost exactly four years ago, โI think he may well have withdrawn from NATO.โ
A Critique of the New Right Misses Its Target
American conservatism has produced a bewildering number of factions over the years, and especially over the last decade, each angling for its place in what has...
Remembering Angelo Gugel
Those who remember the epic pontificate of St. John Paul II may recall a tall, handsome layman with well-combed, iron-gray hair, dressed in a black business suit, white shirt,...
The Real Significance of Moltbook
Elon Musk thinks we may be watching the beginning of the singularity. OpenAI and Tesla AI designer Andrej Karpathy calls it โgenuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thingโ he...
The Pornย Supremacy
Homo sum, humani ยญnihil a me alienum puto, wrote Terence. โI am human, nothing that is human is alien to me.โ...
โWuthering Heightsโ Is for the TikTok Generation
Director Emerald Fennell knows how to tap into a zeitgeist. Her 2020 film Promising Young Woman captured the high that #MeToo activists were riding after the downfall of Harvey...
The Alarming Truth About the U.K.โs Abortion Numbers
Last month, after a mysterious eighteen-month delay, the U.K. government finally published the 2023 abortion figures for England and Wales. When adding in the numbers for the rest of...
Deliver Us from Evil
In a recent New York Times article entitled โFreedom With a Side of Guilt: How Food Delivery Is Reshaping Mealtime,โ we learn that almost three out of four restaurant...
Aย Commitment to Remembrance (ft. Andrew Zwerneman)
In the โlatest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Andrew Zwerneman joins in to discuss his recent article, “Stoke the Fire for Americaโs 250th.”...