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In Memoriam: Bill Eerdmans (1923–2020)

Jon Pott

William B. Eerdmans Jr.  passed away on November 13, 2020. This reflection is excerpted from an article…

The Economic Stakes of the Election

Timothy Reichert

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have numerous economic policy differences. In my view, the most important concerns…

A Warning to the Pro-Life Movement

Daniel K. Williams

Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Presentby mary ziegler cambridge, 326 pages,…

Dark Mercy

Cynthia Erlandson

“Hast thy dark descending and most art merciful then.”Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland You…

The Church in San Francisco

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. The Most Rev. Salvatore J.…

Why We Are Where We Are

George Weigel

By early March 1865, more than a million Americans had killed or wounded one another in civil…

Pope on the World Stage

Peter J. Leithart

On the Feast of the Assumption 1993, Pope John Paul II spoke to hundreds of thousands of…

Coronavirus Calls for Conversion

Gabriele Kuby

A stick known as coronavirus has suddenly been shoved through the spokes of the world’s whirling wheel…

Remembering the Victims of Communism

Sohrab Ahmari

Last week, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó visited the United Nations to drum up diplomatic support for…

Diversity Is a Bore

Mark Bauerlein

Diversity has no plot. Or rather, it has half a plot, or one-fourth or one-fifth. I mean this in…

The War that Changed America in the World

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Clay Risen…

Francis Stands Firm

R. R. Reno

Pope Francis has shown himself to be his own man. In his post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia,…

Catholics and Inclusion Statements

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Patrick Reilly…

Roger Scruton: Burkean and Bohemian

John Haldane

The death of Sir Roger Scruton has deprived academic aesthetics of one of its most creative, insightful,…

Why Rise of Skywalker Fails

Jake Meador

Amongst Dickens’s many perfectly named characters, Thomas Gradgrind may be one of the most horrifying. Gradgrind, a…