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The falsification of reality, underwritten by what some will perceive as the moral authority of the Holy See, could undercut Western resolve in supporting the aggrieved party.
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The Neo-Calvinist movement has much to offer contemporary theology. But if its contributions are going to last, we need to enter a period of “consolidation.” |
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The unraveling of South Korea’s social fabric is a warning to America, which might be heading down the same path. R. R. Reno and Scott Yenor discuss. |
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When schools remove the structure that punishment enforces, the result will not be the utopian flourishing of the unbridled child. Instead we will have anarchy, the power of the stronger child over the weaker. |
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The media attempted to blacken the names of two Poles who were giants of twentieth-century Catholicism. It backfired.
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Vatican diplomacy, absent a recognition of the basic moral and political asymmetries in this brutal war, might make matters worse with a misconceived and ill-executed “peace mission.”
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Neo-Calvinism may not adequately promote unity and appreciation of the broader Christian tradition. |
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As elsewhere in the West, secularism has been making headway in Poland. However, those who dreamed of Poland becoming the next Ireland or Quebec have suffered a major upset in recent weeks.
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Rightly we look back with horror on children in sweatshops and baby lungs filled with noxious smoke. Our blind spot is not prudishness or fear of technology.
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What home economics lessons can we learn from Thoreau? Mark Bauerlein and Jonathan van Belle discuss. |
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Renewed interest in federalism may well be leading to the most serious reconsideration of the federal idea in our century.
From the archives:
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Fukuyama emphasized that a society that disavowed thymos would abolish all that made civilization great. Thymos could be misused, but its proper use made all human creative endeavors possible.
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The slander of Cardinal Adam Sapieha and Pope St. John Paul II has led to an unprecedented mobilization of Polish Catholics in defense of the truth.
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Social media is robbing children of childhood and the effects are lifelong.
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Peter: you doubt, you sink. Your wavering
Petrifies. Remember even the heaving
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The time is ripe for the Supreme Court to clarify the meaning of “religion” for free exercise purposes—specifically, to clarify whether it covers purely individualistic spiritual pursuits. |
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When worlds fall to ruins, the church is the catalyst of rebirth.
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A whole town that encourages relational instability and elevates sexual liberation above personal responsibility seems outright antithetical to the well-being of children.
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There is hope, even from the so-called “snowflake” generation.
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Zena Hitz and Mark Bauerlein discuss following Christ fully, outside the religious life. |
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The dilemma Benedict tried to resolve will continue to elicit alternative solutions and passionate disagreements, as Christians make their pilgrimage through the passing kingdoms of this world toward their eternal homeland.
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The ongoing debate about the economy can take two important lessons from “Centesimus Annus,” I suggest.
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“You’re mine?” she replied, reaching over and taking my hand. “Mine? You’re mine?”
“Yes, Mama, I’m yours.”
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Progressive activism among both professors and students at Princeton is eating away at the ideal, however imperfectly practiced, of dispassionate scholarship.
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The people of Somerville define themselves by their sexuality and the fluidity of commitment over against the kinds of bonds that keep people rooted and give their lives meaning.
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Our calling in the wasteland isn’t to conserve but to keep in step with the Spirit, hoping, boldly and joyfully, for resurrection.
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What happens when a culture no longer wills its own existence? R. R. Reno and Nathan Pinkoski discuss:
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We’re all weekend beatniks now. The counterculture of transgression that dominates “On the Road” has thoroughly colonized our middle-class world.
From the archives:
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It would be hard to find a more faithful community than the Syriac Christians of Derik, and their faith survives in the face of war, persecution, and the emigration of their brothers, sisters, children, and friends.
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Polyamory is the arrangement most natural to the “throwaway culture,” which reduces everything—including people—to interchangeable, and thus disposable, consumer products.
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We must grasp the gravity of our moment. The West isn’t sick. It’s dead, and we should heed Jesus’s exhortation to “let the dead bury their dead.”
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There is still temporal hope in the young people, however few they may today be, who carry the torch of truth into the future.
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Mark’s latest podcast with Zena Hitz explores the role of contemplation in the life of laypeople. |
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If sex is liberated, what is it liberated from, and what is it liberated to?
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Holden’s loving vision of catching falling children is what finally reconciles him to birth’s biological sentence of doom and allows him to triumph over death.
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Given twenty-first-century economic and political realities, the real issue is the proper legal regulation of the economy.
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The spirit of Mephistopheles is truly seductive, as Goethe well knew. Thankfully, however, there is still hope.
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The real issue is the degree of regulation that should frame the activities of the free economy, on everything from minimum wages to pornography to carbon emissions to the development of artificial intelligence.
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Nathan Pinkoski and R. R. Reno discuss “The Camp of the Saints” and Western self-loathing.
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