2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (70+ words) Germán S. Díaz del Castillo is associate editor at First Things. Virginia Aabram is newsletter editor at First Things. Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal… In his breakout 2000 memoir,…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (191+ words) There are goodies and baddies, but no one in the book is flawless; Hebe changes sides with an act of abject penance. Like all great moralists, Kennedy is simultaneously very stern, very subtle, and very funny. Nancibel takes an instant…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (377+ words) What struck me was not the video itself but the reason she gave for making it public—and therefore, as Albert Mohler observed, political. Women, she said, “are not taught about our bodies, we are not prepared for our own…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (129+ words) Bear with me now for a few moments of tedious, but revealing, statistics. Indeed. Yet what caused that uncertainty? Consider this: That is what accounts for 5.1 percent Sunday Mass attendance. And that is what has caused the tragedy of the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (72+ words) Image by Joe Giddens via AP Darel E. Paul is Willmott Family Third Century Professor of Political Science at Williams College. In his breakout 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain recounts his early… Here’s a simple, biblical…...

5+ day, 19+ min ago   (413+ words) The Lost Boys, a Broadway musical adapted from the 1980s vampire flick, opens with a flickering specter. A doomed cop is searching a condemned warehouse when a TV suddenly brightens. On the screen is Ronald Reagan, delivering a Christmas speech on…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (122+ words) After losing out on an expected writing fellowship, “Tony” (Dominic Sessa), a cocky, nunchaku-carrying lout, follows a crush (Emilia Jones) to Provincetown, where a harsh but wise Portuguese chef takes him in and introduces him to the life of chefdom....

6+ day, 32+ min ago   (337+ words) Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have unintended consequences. The data are at least plausible. They warrant some…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (181+ words) Spanish and European lawmakers bear responsibility for encouraging the whole cycle. The inability to face up to the incentives bad law creates means that European states and the E.U. must pay other countries to hold Europe’s migrant problems at bay. That…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (222+ words) Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstreamby dixie dillon laneeerdmans, 216 pages, $28.99 Lane is a historian and former adjunct professor of history at Christendom College in Virginia; her husband, Christopher, is a professor of history there....