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Murder, Inc.

Charlotte Allen

The movie Unplanned, which tells the story of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson’s conversion to…

Math Delusion

Dan Hitchens

Mathematics is useful, and indeed beautiful: the thought of the infinite series of prime numbers is as awe-inspiring as…

Provocateur at Work

John Wilson

Another Kingdom: Book 1by andrew klavanturner, 335 pages, $29.99 Summon to mind the image of John Cleese…

The High-Priced Spread, Revisited

George Weigel

Readers of a certain vintage (say, over sixty) will remember the Imperial Margarine TV ad that dismissed…

YouTube Revolution

John Waters

Though I have long and volubly condemned all forms of “web life,” I sheepishly confess to having…

Why I Plant Redbuds

Duane K. Caylor

“If I knew that tomorrow was the end of the world, I would plant an apple tree…

How Jane Austen Played Baseball

John Wilson

Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseballdavid blocknebraska, 298 pages, $29.95…

The Fraud of Higher Education

Benjamin Myers

In The Republic, Plato’s Socrates tells of a man who lives with a beast. The beast is…

Redeeming the Time with St. Patrick

Terence Sweeney

Every St. Patrick’s Day, some people insist on repeating “surprising” facts about Ireland’s patron saint. One of…

Making Sense of Hell

Dan Hitchens

Eternal damnation has never been a wildly popular doctrine, but it seems to be coming under particular pressure at…

The Art of Spiritual Warfare

Justin Lee

This Present Darknessby frank e. peretticrossway, 375 pages, $14.99 As a teenager, I was convinced that a…

The Pell Affair: Australia Is Now on Trial

George Weigel

Has it occurred to anyone else debating the perverse verdict rendered against Cardinal George Pell, which convicted…

“Synodality” and the Rome Abuse Summit

George Weigel

Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s…

Evangelical Ruskin

Peter J. Leithart

2019 is the bicentennial year of John Ruskin’s birth, and he is suddenly all the rage. London’s…

Methodist Madness

Charlotte Allen

Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly…