Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Guns and the American Soul
In the aftermath of the horror at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Justice John Paul Stevens’s…
Make Catholic Education Catholic Again
In my recent article, “The Sorry Situation of Catholic Schools,” I outlined the failure of Catholic schools…
Dobbs Hysteria and Russian Disinformation
There are striking parallels between the Russian disinformation campaign that continues to foul the global communications space…
St. Augustine’s Guide to Living Well
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Foley joins the podcast to…
How Mary Whitehouse Waged War on Pornography
We have reached the point where our post-Christian elites, having safely enshrined the sexual revolution in law,…
Saturday Night Live Tackles Abortion
Saturday Night Live has long felt dated. The skits telegraph and then often explain their jokes. Moments…
The Rise of Byzantium
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Paul Stephenson joins the podcast to…
My Memories of Midge Decter
Let me think about it,” Midge Decter said. It was early in 2014. I was looking for…
Les Murray the Misfit Poet
When the great Australian poet Les Murray died in April 2019, he left an incomplete volume of…
The Sorry Situation of Catholic Schools
How many Catholic schools are really just public schools with a Mass requirement attached, plus an elective…
Protecting Orthodox Jewish Schools
In the 1972 Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, Amish Americans challenged Wisconsin’s compulsory education law, which…
Fire Upon the Earth
Contempt for religious faith has been growing in America’s leadership classes for many decades, as scholars such…
What Happened in the French Election
When a man who is widely disliked or even hated wins a political election by a crushing…
Dispiriting Signs for the Synod on Synodality
Ever so slowly, the “Synod on Synodality” is beginning. A preparatory process of “listening and dialogue” in…
Artists and Abortion
Many artists have grappled with how to depict abortion. Ernest Hemingway wrote an entire short story about…