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Bernie Sanders and the Atomized Republic
Yuval Levin argues that American politics is being distorted by the toxic nostalgia of Baby Boomers who…
Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist
This is the third and final installment of an advice column for religious and social conservatives preparing…
Sins of Their Fathers
Films with a theological bent never get far from the oldest question of theodicy: Why does a…
Healing Memories through Divine Mercy
Of all the issues people don’t like discussing, high on the list is the emotional and spiritual…
Lawn Care Spiritualized
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
The title puzzled us. Most of the world saw nothing remarkable about indie director Whit Stillman’s decision…
Obergefell and the New Gnosticism
For decades, the Sexual Revolution was supposed to be about freedom. Today, it is about coercion. Once,…
Confessions of an “Elitist”
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
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
Deciding that I needed to get out more, I went looking for a job. I wasn’t expecting…
Two Catholics and the Catholic Game
Baseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and…
Terrorism Is Not Hate
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
On paper, tenure recommendations for humanities professors have three parts: research, teaching, service. That’s what the faculty…
Edenic Recollections
My oldest son once spent a summer on staff at a Scout reservation. Underneath his tent platform…
Beyoncé and the Fertility of Forgiveness
The most screenshotted sequence in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade is “Hold Up.” After discovering her husband’s infidelity, she walks…