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Bernie Sanders and the Atomized Republic

Pete Spiliakos

Yuval Levin argues that American politics is being distorted by the toxic nostalgia of Baby Boomers who…

Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

This is the third and final installment of an advice column for religious and social conservatives preparing…

Sins of Their Fathers

Alexi Sargeant

Films with a theological bent never get far from the oldest question of theodicy: Why does a…

Healing Memories through Divine Mercy

William Doino Jr.

Of all the issues people don’t like discussing, high on the list is the emotional and spiritual…

Lawn Care Spiritualized

Peter J. Leithart

I’ve been paraphrasing Hazel Motes a lot lately. He’s the tortured protagonist of Flannery O’Connor’s novel Wise…

Whit Stillman among the Janeites

Deborah Yaffe

The title puzzled us. Most of the world saw nothing remarkable about indie director Whit Stillman’s decision…

Obergefell and the New Gnosticism

Sherif Girgis

For decades, the Sexual Revolution was supposed to be about freedom. Today, it is about coercion. Once,…

Confessions of an “Elitist”

George Weigel

The term “elitist” has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it’s become virtually…

More Advice For the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

This is the second installment of an advice column for religious and social conservatives preparing for the…

How To Live on $8.90 an Hour

Russell E. Saltzman

Deciding that I needed to get out more, I went looking for a job. I wasn’t expecting…

Two Catholics and the Catholic Game

George Weigel

Baseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and…

Terrorism Is Not Hate

R. R. Reno

Hate. It’s a word many have used to describe Omar Mateen’s slaughter of fifty people at an…

Some AdviceFor the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

On paper, tenure recommendations for humanities professors have three parts: research, teaching, service. That’s what the faculty…

Edenic Recollections

Russell E. Saltzman

My oldest son once spent a summer on staff at a Scout reservation. Underneath his tent platform…

Beyoncé and the Fertility of Forgiveness

Leah Libresco Sargeant

The most screenshotted sequence in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade is “Hold Up.” After discovering her husband’s infidelity, she walks…