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The great essayist William Hazlitt observed that there is pleasure in hating. “Without something to hate,”...

You can learn everything you need to know about our collective state of mind from the fact that the most talked-about book of the year is titled If Anyone...

In 2014, when Kevin Malone’s opera Mysterious 44 premiered in Manchester, England, the production featured narrative voiceovers by Richard Dawkins. It was a fitting choice. Funded in part by...

When in April of 2025 the Hastings Center for Bioethics (the oldest bioethics think tank in this country) revealed its new five-year strategic plan, one of six “values” specified...

"Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not” (Jon. 3:9)

The Nativity of our Lord—born an infant, laid in a manger. It’s an utterly strange story: The Creator of all things takes the flesh of and lives as a...

It happened quickly, so quickly that you’d think it was impossible to retain the image. The Ohio Turnpike in October 2024, 5:30 a.m. and pitch-black, the road straight and...

Something like a civil war is unfolding within the American conservative movement. It is not merely a dispute about policy agendas, foreign alliances, or the boundaries of political discourse. It is a deeper conflict—a struggle over the meaning of conservatism itself...

In these early days of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has made one thing clear: The responsible use of AI will be one of his central themes. It has...

Earlier this summer, Egypt’s Ministry of Religious Endowments launched a new campaign. It is entitled “Correct Your Concepts,” and you need exert little effort to figure out which perceptions...

I was a full-time parish priest at a time when we still visited people in their homes. In one congregation, I made a commitment to visit every member my...

On October 14, Politico reported on a group chat in which leaders of various Young Republicans groups seemed to vie with one another to see who could say the...

The twentieth-­century philosopher Wilfrid Sellars drew an influential distinction between “the manifest image,” which is the way the world is presented to us in everyday experience and common sense,...

When it was announced in October that the next archbishop of Canterbury would be a woman with progressive views on homosexuality and abortion, social media erupted...

November 5, 2024, was one of the most joyous days of my life. Like 77,302,580 of my fellow Americans, I felt that, under the Democrats, the nation was heading in a disastrous direction...