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July 21, 2026

A Mugg’s Game

“Write what should not be forgotten” —Isabel Allende For over half a century, no other journalist/political commentator/frustrated novelist had the impact of Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990). Yet he is largely forgotten today. Continue Reading...
July 15, 2026

The Ghosts of Postliberalism

Since the publication of Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed in 2018, a growing number of conservative and Catholic thinkers have challenged assumptions that long defined the postwar right. Deneen argued that liberalism has weakened the social institutions on which it depends. Continue Reading...
July 10, 2026

Is There a Right to Work Six Days a Week?

In Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II affirms that, through work, man must earn his daily bread. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, debates about human dignity in the workplace focused on slavery, forced labor, and the degrading conditions faced by millions of workers. Continue Reading...
July 09, 2026

More Kings, Please?

If there is one thing Americans seem to agree on these days, it is discontent with the American democratic system. According to a recent Gallup survey, half of Americans agree with the statement that democracy is performing poorly. Continue Reading...
July 08, 2026

America Is Exceptional Because It Is Not Radical

“A republic, if you can keep it” was Ben Franklin’s famous answer when asked what kind of government the framers created at the Constitutional Convention. The founders were men of ideas, but they also took history, democratic practice, politics, and the reality of the human person seriously. Continue Reading...
July 07, 2026

AI, or This Stranger We Keep Inventing

At the end of Terminator 2, the machine lowers itself into a crucible of molten steel, gives the thumbs-up it learned from a child, and disappears. It is one of the strangest images American cinema has produced: a killing machine that learned to love and chose its own unmaking so that the future might live. Continue Reading...
July 06, 2026

Have We Been Spiritual but Not Religious Forever?

Michael Horton’s Shaman & Sage: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” is not a quick read, which means that for the past few months, I’ve been carrying the book around and taking it out to read in spare moments: at coffee shops, sandlot baseball practices, the playground, etc., Continue Reading...