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November 13, 2025

Liberalism Revisited

For the past decade or so, we have become more accustomed to speak of a “crisis” of liberalism. No doubt that is one reason why Notre Dame Press has chosen to re-release David Walsh’s The Growth of the Liberal Soul. Continue Reading...
November 12, 2025

Amy Coney Barrett Listens to the Law

Many Americans wonder if any jurist on the U.S. Supreme Court will ever be able to fill the shoes of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed in 2016. President Trump has—so far—appointed three avowedly originalist justices with the potential to do so. Continue Reading...
November 11, 2025

Twelfth Night Revels, Revelations, and the Death of Rabelais

In the Christian calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany marks the coming of the Magi, whose journey signals the first revelation of the Incarnation to the wider world. With Epiphany, the days of Christmas end, though the afterglow of the Nativity lingers until Candlemas, on February 2: the feast of the presentation of the Christ Child in the temple, when the Church recalls another recognition. Continue Reading...
November 06, 2025

A Trail of Tears: When Reason Failed

November, Native American History Month, will rightly bring out remonstrations against the injustices of the 1830s, but to understand what happened we should start with the Proclamation Line of 1763, a British attempt to separate American colonists (who would live east of the Appalachians) and Native Americans (told to stay west). Continue Reading...
November 03, 2025

Can Nigeria’s Church Survive the Storm?

Nigeria’s Christian community was long thought to be a place of promise. Its churches have been engines of education, charity, and civic formation. Its believers have been pastors, teachers, entrepreneurs, and peacemakers. Continue Reading...
October 31, 2025

Dilexi Te and Loving the Poor

Pope Leo XIV’s first major proclamation, Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You), is an apostolic exhortation addressed “to all Christians” on caring for the poor. Pope Francis was preparing this exhortation when he died. Continue Reading...
October 30, 2025

From Her to Here: Can Tech Cure Loneliness?

Recently, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI is considering allowing more personal—and even erotic—content for adult users, which reignited a broader conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. This might remind you of Her, the 2013 film in which a lonely man falls in love with his operating system. Continue Reading...
October 28, 2025

Our Philo-Semitic History

To hold in one’s hands a book like Josh Hammer’s Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish State and the Destiny of the West is the kind of privilege that comes with residency in the civilized West. Continue Reading...