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The Pride flag is progressive America’s banner. Before it was ­unfurled, most gays stayed in the closet. With the advent of Pride, they became out and proud. Over time, gay pride came to be as American as...

A year after I became a Catholic, when my teenaged son was thinking about college, we visited Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the days and weeks following my...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini had only just turned twenty when he finished his sculpture of ­Aeneas, the mythical founder of Rome, in his escape from the conquered city of Troy....

I have cancer,” the elderly woman ­announced from her hospital bed high above York Avenue in Manhattan. “But cancer is not the sickness. Cancer is the cure. Because cancer...

A physician declares his dying patient—a seven-pound baby boy—“dangerous as dynamite,” a “menace to society.” A routine medical procedure could save the boy’s life, but he was born deformed....

Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the seventeenth century, once said that Caravaggio had come into the world to destroy painting. ­Poussin’s concept of beauty led him to...

The circumstances of my life have been such that I have moved, since adolescence, in a ­borderland between languages. Borderlands tend to be rugged, at least if...

The problem with the evangelical elite is that there isn’t one. All too few evangelical Christians hold senior positions in the ­culture-shap­ing domains of American ­society. Evangelicals don’t run...

Daniel Kahneman was a Nobel laureate in economics, the author of the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow, and a giant in the study of decision-making and behavioral economics...

Christendom is gone. So, too, is much of the Western civilization that was built atop it. Christians find themselves strangers and sojourners in an unfamiliar land. Aaron Renn calls...

People can get used to most anything. Even the abyss may be rendered tolerable—or, for that matter, luxurious—furnished with creature comforts so that the unbearable truth of one’s condition...

”Hey you, I’m into Jesus,” I sang, driving to school in my 1988 Buick Park Avenue, the windows rolled down, wind whipping through my hair, the bass rattling the...

I fell in love with autumn as a child. Much as I enjoyed summer, I always longed to see it immolated on fall’s prismatic pyre. I loved the fitful...

The great temptation of the modern world is to live as if God did not exist—etsi Deus non daretur, in the oft-repeated Latin phrase. Henri de Lubac was convinced...

Before London was a global city, it was just a city, and people lived there. Across its two-thousand-year history, London has always had a working class. In the sixteenth...