Historian of the Present
by John WilsonMichael Connelly is a historian of the present, telling us what is “happening” with immediacy and imaginative depth through his crime novels. Continue Reading »
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An Attack on Free Speech in Finland
by Jonathon Van MarenFinland continues to persecute parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen for publicly defending the biblical view of homosexuality. Continue Reading »
Extraordinary Evangelization in Extraordinary Times
by George WeigelWhat Father Alexander Sherbrooke has done at St. Patrick’s Church in London is little short of miraculous. Continue Reading »
Homeschoolers and Ideologues
by Samuel D. JamesHarvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet seems to think that only public schools are capable of creating responsible, mature, informed citizens. Continue Reading »
What We’ve Been Reading—May 2020
by EditorsMark Bauerlein on Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind and Veronica Clarke on Xavier de Maistre's A Journey Around My Room. Continue Reading »
Babies For Sale
by Jennifer LahlThe New York State Legislature has legalized commercial gestational surrogacy—the contractual renting of wombs and the buying and selling of newborn babies. Continue Reading »
The Idea of the Catholic School
by C. C. PecknoldCatholic schools serve the common good of Catholics but also the nation as a whole. Continue Reading »
Queer Times
by Carl R. TruemanThe LGBTQ debate is about the radical abolition of metaphysics and metanarratives and any notion of cultural stability that might rest thereupon. Continue Reading »
Games Intellectuals Play
by George WeigelThe proponents of a new “Catholic integralism” have demonstrated an impressive ability to rile up the debate about the current American political situation. Continue Reading »
An Encounter With My Past
by Peter HitchensFor the past few weeks I have been confined by state-sponsored panic to my hometown, for day after brilliantly sunny day. Continue Reading »
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