Dennis Quaid has a long list of memorable film roles to his credit, including playing such larger-than-life historic figures as astronaut Gordon Cooper in 1983’s The Right Stuff, rock-n-roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis in 1989’s Great Balls of Fire! Continue Reading...
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July 19, 2024
We Need More Cosmopolitan Christians
If there’s one particular type of person that the world’s most important cities—New York, Washington, D.C., London—need more than any other it’s … the saint. Of course, we need saints everywhere, but the cruciality of our cities as centers of culture means we have a special need for virtuous Christians to be in cities—first to sanctify them but also to take advantage of the abundance of resources and learn from the innovations found there. Continue Reading...
July 18, 2024
Cognitive Dissonance at the New York Times
Any rational person will readily agree that life in America has become slightly insane. This was true especially of COVID time and its consequences, be they medical, political, or existential. But even before that, much of America had endured the tyranny of “political correctness”—a term that has gone out of fashion, replaced by “woke” or “wokeism.” Continue Reading...
July 17, 2024
A High and Holy Art for All
These days, the world of contemporary American poetry is less one world than many. Never has so much poetry been published; rarely have there been more “camps” or “contingents” that have little to say to each other. Continue Reading...
July 16, 2024
A CNN Host Does History
Fareed Zakaria acknowledges in Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, that “scholars who detail the way that material conditions and individual freedoms have improved over the centuries are often dismissed as peddlers of ‘Whig history.’” Continue Reading...
July 12, 2024
Michael Novak’s Freedom with Justice at 40
The question of Catholicism’s consonance with liberalism is not new, as the Church first responded to the “social question” beginning in the late 19th century. It’s become timely again with the rise of Catholic postliberal movements. Continue Reading...
July 11, 2024
Posting the Ten Commandments in Classrooms Will Not Fix Dysfunctional Public Schools
The Louisiana legislature is about to pass a bill that would require every public school in the state to post the Ten Commandments in each classroom. The bill’s author, Rep. Dodie Horton, explained that the “purpose [of the law] is not solely religious” but also serves to “display the history of our country and foundation of our legal system.” Continue Reading...
July 10, 2024
Why Overturning Chevron Didn’t Fix the Problem…Entirely
Every year, millions of American families with college students complete a government form known as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The application is administered by the U.S. Continue Reading...
July 09, 2024
The Law-Respecting Lawlessness of Bikeriders
Jeff Nichols is a strange director. He makes movies about the forgotten Americans, the white working and lower classes of the Midwest, but it’s only European festivals that really take an interest. Continue Reading...
July 04, 2024
What to the Abolitionist Was the Fourth of July?
In academia and culture alike, it has become fashionable to dismiss the principles associated with American independence as shortsighted at best and intentionally exclusionary at worst. “Neither Jefferson nor most of the founders intended to abolish slavery,” wrote Nikole Hannah-Jones in the New York Times Magazine debut of the 1619 Project in August 2019. Continue Reading...