At the beginning of his 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, Pope ­Francis speaks of “an episode in the life of St. Francis ...

In mid-September, I joined a lunch with the leaders of a village in Syunik, southern Armenia. The president of neighboring Azerbaijan has been threatening for several years to “return” this region to ...

The editors discuss the NatCon in Jerusalem, the scandal at Cornell University and its broader implications, and whether AI could ever be considered to be conscious. War abroad. Socialists on the rise ...

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

It used to be that if you died horribly and honorably and happened to be a person of note, your legacy was secure. Amelia Earhart, John F. Kennedy, and Kurt Cobain were served well by their untimely ...

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 ...

The family of Anita Bryant (1940–2024) only recently announced that the singer and Christian activist died on December 16. The belated family obituary that broke the news notably made no mention of ...

The following is excerpted and adapted from Bronwen McShea’s new book, Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know, out today from Ignatius Press and the Augustine Institute. Most baptized ...

Was the First Gulf War a mistake? The historian Paul Schroeder thought the answer was “yes.” In his arresting formulation, Operation Desert Storm was “a just, unnecessary war.” He was hardly the only ...

We are living, it scarcely needs saying, in unpredictable times. But no one could have imagined that within days of Donald J. Trump’s triumphant return to the White House, a close-quarters street ...

Let me take you back to the 1950s, when my brother and I were boys in Southern California. We were raised by our mother and her mother after my parents divorced (I was about five at the time). We ...

Ten years ago, an editor at Penguin approached me to ask if I would like to edit a collection of essays by Wendell Berry for a British audience. Berry’s essays had never been published in book form in ...