On the last day of the year, here’s a glance back at our most-read essays of 2024. This list is based on pageviews, and everything is linked—so if you missed an article, check it out now.
Our 10 Most Popular Print Articles
- “Cardinal Fernández Misleads,” by Charles J. Chaput
- “Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button,” by Louise Perry
- “The New Midlife Crisis,” by Matthew Schmitz
- “Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution,” by Patricia Snow
- “The Future of the Catholic Church,” by Various
- “Our Christian Nation,” by Josh Hawley
- “Actually Existing Postliberalism,” by Nathan Pinkoski
- “Normophobia,” by Mary Harrington
- “Resist the Machine Apocalypse,” by Iain McGilchrist
- “Joan of Arc, Gender Theorist,” by Dan Hitchens
Our 10 Most Popular Web Articles
- “Can Christians Attend Gay Weddings?,” by Carl R. Trueman
- “VP Nominee Tim Walz Supports the Right to Infanticide,” by Charles C. Camosy
- “Follow the Money to the After Party,” by Megan Basham
- “The Pope and Other Religions,” by Charles J. Chaput
- “The Plot to Queer Evangelical Churches,” by Megan Basham
- “What the Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About,” by Carl R. Trueman
- “Desecration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral,” by Carl R. Trueman
- “How Pop Nietzscheanism Masquerades as Christianity,” by Carl R. Trueman
- “Why Catholics Voted for Trump,” by Mary Eberstadt
- “Kamala’s Abortion Extremism,” by Ryan T. Anderson
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