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When news broke last week that the Trump administration had quietly restored federal Planned Parenthood funding, which he had previously cut, pro-life conservatives were understandably upset. Yet, as Elizabeth...

The recent disruption of a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, by anti-ICE protesters has prompted familiar legal arguments. Commentators invoke the FACE Act, which prohibits interference with an...

If it is true that social shifts begin first among the elites, something may be stirring in the West. While taking questions at an appearance at the MacDonald–Laurier Institute...

Are you around at all for the next hour? Wanted to stop by with the trophy!” “I sure am,” I replied. About fifteen minutes later, Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback of the Indiana University football team...

There was now much talk of looking for new lands.” This line from the thirteenth-century Icelandic Saga of the Greenlanders is an apt description of Washington, D.C., in 2026. The Saga of the Greenlanders...

The great boxing spectacles of the past—the Thrilla in Manila (1975) and the Rumble in the Jungle (1974)—were never merely athletic contests. They were cultural dramas staged on global...

I have lived in Ohio, Michigan, Georgia (twice), Pennsylvania, Alabama (also twice), England, and Idaho. I left home to go to college, left another home to attend seminary, and...

While majoring in computer science at Columbia University, I took part in a poetry workshop. We were assigned to write a Petrarchan sonnet, one of the most rigid of...

Recent reports and images from Minneapolis reminded me of Little Rock in 1957, where attempts were made to nullify the Supreme Court’s effort to impose a new regime of...

In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does...

With each passing day, the public fraud uncovered in Minnesota—mainly involving Medicaid, childcare, and other public assistance programs—seems to grow. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson estimates $9 billion...

The Last Westernerby chilton williamson jr.386 pages, st. augustine’s press, $19.95 In his dedication to The Last Westerner, Chilton Williamson Jr. remembers his friend Edward Abbey and hopes that...

The Trump administration’s recent military engagement with Venezuela and rhetoric with respect to Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland mark a new bellicosity in foreign policy, and one at odds...

The Trump administration’s arrest of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and his subsequent appearance in federal district court in Manhattan has reignited a familiar legal controversy. How can the United...

The second Trump administration has been marked by wins on what we might dub “cultural” conservatism—ending DEI in the federal government, cracking down on immigration, protecting women’s sports, rolling...