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Democrats must not be allowed to get away with brazenly redefining terms and refusing to say whether they’ll upend a century and a half of tradition by expanding the size of the Supreme Court. Read More

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America has a lot to learn from Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘covenant community.’ Read More

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A Supreme Court that hollows out or even reverses Roe v. Wade will not settle the American abortion debate; it will return the issue to the states, where there will be mixed results for the cause of life. Read More

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Amy Coney Barrett is not the only judge to have faced improper scrutiny from Democrats over her religious beliefs. Read More

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The distinctiveness of Barrett’s faith – and the consternation it causes among the champions of certain secular pieties – is refreshing. It also underscores the indistinctiveness of so many Catholics who hold public office. Read More

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The current pontificate’s outreach to China is, for Mr. Lai Chee Ying, fatally flawed at the expense of China’s Christian believers. Read More

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Fecundity and barrenness contend—in each of us. Those of us who have a secret desire for barrenness are ashamed of it. Read More

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By striking the most famous claim of the 1619 Project and then covering up that act, the New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones have retroactively exposed their effort as a bad-faith project. Read More

See also Mr. Kurtz’s recent appearance on the “Law Liberty Talk” podcast where he discusses his new book, The Lost History of Western Civilization. Listen to “How the West Was Lost” here.
 

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“Liberty and Justice for All,” a call for national renewal drafted by scholars concerned about the dangerous deterioration of American public life, insists that we must treat each other as mutually responsible individuals, not as embodiments of racial or ideological categories. Read More

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When Mr. Trump tells his fellow citizens not to be intimidated by the coronavirus, not to let it “dominate” them, he invites them to share in an optative, mind-over-matter metaphysics that is the key to his relationship to the truth and the workings of his presidency. Read More

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For the first time in a long time, the world looks brighter and a little more hopeful than it did seven months ago. As awful as it has been, this disease was not the apocalypse we feared. Read More

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The decline in the headline unemployment rate, from 8.4 percent to 7.9 percent, is superficially good news for President Trump. But a deeper dive reveals underlying, structural barriers to returning to pre-pandemic levels that will bedevil whoever wins. Read More

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Columbus’s legacy is as important as ever today because it reminds us that historical accuracy and public honor are not mutually exclusive. While recognizing Columbus’s imperfections, we can also honor the good he passed down to us. Read More

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Rod Dreher’s new book seeks first to explain what’s reshaping American culture and why; and then to suggest the strategies needed today to live and witness Christian hope, despite the changing terrain. Read More

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You can tell a lot about the state of the party by the people who are joining it, the people who are leaving it, and the people it’s pushing out. Read More

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EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was interviewed recently about his new book The Next Pope and the Future of the Catholic Church. Read More

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What’s missing in Raised by Wolves, as in so much of modern science fiction, is precisely anything resembling or ennobling the human soul. Read More