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Was St. Vincent of Lérins Anti-Augustinian?
One of Pope Francis’s favorite theologians, as many will remember, was the early church writer St. Vincent of Lérins. Again and again, Francis cited a few lines from this...

No, Churches Still May Not Endorse Political Candidates
In the latest example of journalists and the online commentariat misstating the nuances of a high-stakes legal issue, dozens of headlines have been reporting that the IRS will now...

The Best of Us Is Medieval
It has long been a custom among commentators that, when looking for a comparator that will blacken any reputation, cloak your own judgement in righteousness, and win all arguments,...

Leavers, Yearners, and Returners
You could fill a small library with books from the last twenty years devoted to the erosion of religious belief and practice among Americans, particularly belief in Christianity. And...

Pope Leo and Traditionis Custodes
Not long after Traditionis Custodes was published in 2021, I flew to Rome in my official capacity as president of Una Voce International, the grouping of Una Voce or...

Abolishing Ourselves
Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the British headlines from the past few weeks. The House of Commons approved...

A Straight Line to the Pulpit: The Legacy of John MacArthur
In the middle of the twentieth century, with suburbs and churches exploding with intensity, novelist Peter De Vries saw big problems ahead for mainline Protestantism. He wrote of the...

Planned Parenthood Defunded—For Now
In the three years that followed Dobbs, the pro-life movement may have sometimes felt like it was absorbing one body blow after another. The “One Big Beautiful Bill”—despite the...

A Primer on Neo-Reaction
Xenosystemsby nick landpassage, 338 pages, $39.95 I read Nick Land’s Xenosystems on a sunny afternoon in California as Los Angeles burned to the ground. Wake up, log onto X.com,...

Hello, Goodbye Christianity
The Beatles were boomers, through and through. Their 1966 record Revolver features—along with paradigm-shifting studio trickery and subversive lyrics about pot—an earnest complaint about having to pay too much...

A Eulogy for Bullfighting
Growing up, I had always felt that I was “too sensitive” for bullfighting, and thus opposed it. I nevertheless visited La Plaza México—the world’s largest bullfighting arena—for the opening...

Is Just War Theory Still Relevant?
Conflict in the Middle East brings fundamental questions about just war into the public debate. Yet the use of just war may itself need justification given the evolution of...

The Genius of American Christianity
Chesterton was half-right: America is a “nation with the soul of a church.” The other half of the truth is that many of our churches lack basic features of...

Automating the Human Mind
It’s striking how little turmoil the dawn of AI is causing at top universities across the country. Big Tech companies are moving quickly to embed AI products into every...

Rule Zombie Britannia
The U.K. is isolated, as European leaders seek to beat off the instability and irrationality radiating from the British Isles. The country is in a state of industrial decay....