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Michael Brendan DoughertyNational Review |
In yet another post (of several) trying to end the debate about the common good simply by reasserting that the people who are credited with...
Okay, last and final word on this. To further illustrate that the common good, like liberty or democracy or due process or equality, is another...
I’m heading for some time off. But I think I have a little more to contribute before I fall silent. To recap: Dan expressed his doubt that “the...
I confess I had to read Dan’s post “What Exactly Is ‘the Common Good’?” twice before I could believe he wrote it. Was he really suggesting...
Here's the full segment with Senator Hawley GOING OFF on Fauci and it's well worth the watch. Send this to EVERYONE you know....
I know it was before his cowardly appearance before the Senate this morning, but this Miranda Devine column on Dr. Fauci and his diaries is...
Bombing or no-bombing, MOU or no MOU: We have a war that our people and our allies don’t want to support. Five months into it, after we were told...
The New York Times writes about our former colleague, now leader of the Manhattan Institute, Reihan Salam: Reihan Salam has a lot in common with the...
It’s been really fun to watch clips of this Sunday’s All-Ireland Gaelic football championship go viral across social media. The more I watch of...
Earlier this week, Jim took a dim view of potential talks with the Iranians. The Iranian regime demonstrated, clearly and frequently, that any...
The Washington Free Beacon has a cracker of a book review, in which Ronald Radosh reads the searching memoir of Zayd Ayers Dohrn. You’ll remember...
For those who know, rigged elections do happen in the Americas. They’ve been happening for years in Nicaragua, ever since the Sandinistas brought...
Ross Douthat has a thoughtful review of Richard Hanania’s book, which is another brief against “populism” but from Hanania’s odd angle....
Over at The Spectator, Owen Matthews has a sobering dispatch about this week’s big news in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his...
Former Vice President Mike Pence says the lesson of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is the U.S. was only willing to fight "to a point" rather...
The critical consensus developing around Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has several parts. The film has remarkable performances and is made on...
Last week, Lyman Stone wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about how the population bust is coming sooner than people realize: There are two major...
I’ve questioned the determination in some quarters to hate on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey before seeing it. Much of this corner of the...
At the very beginning of the 2016 cycle, I was asked by a magazine if I wanted to profile Lindsey Graham. They thought it would be fun to assign a...
As if to make their cheerleaders choke on all their words, the new government of Hungary, led by Péter Magyar, used its constitution-shaping majority...
In an act of lip-curling intransigence and futile defiance of Nature and Nature’s God, the United States House of Representatives voted to make...
The Bear is a drama on FX about a top-tier chef coming home to his grief-stricken family to take over and ultimately transform the beef sandwich shop...
I think Christopher Nolan is a brilliant filmmaker, and especially gifted on the technical side of the ledger. A lot of influencers and accounts on...
From his lecture series “The Face of God”: Only that which is sacred can be desecrated. Hence the habitual desecration of death and sexual love...
Iran’s defiance and skirting around the peace deal that was talked up in recent weeks, and its firing on U.S. vessels in the strait is an outrage...
On Anthony Bourdain's show about travel and food, Parts Unknown, I liked that he was an old-fashioned kind of liberal, one who would make room...
Readers know my preoccupation with fertility rates and population decline. If, as conservatives, our political and social project is an appreciation...
The Society of Saint Pius X went ahead and ordained four bishops without a papal mandate, reprising the events of 1988. The Vatican, in turn, has...
I’ve been reading Eamon Duffy’s excellent collection of historical and biographical essays, Reformation Divided, which takes a very long and...
I’ve started an informal list of American things that European and other World Cup tourists have professed their love for in America: free refills,...
Maybe Christmas is the king of romantic holidays. It seems like half the “holiday” songs are torch songs, or at least ones that are lovesick. But...
The 1994 World Cup, hosted by the United States, was a pivotal moment in the development of interest in soccer in America. It built momentum for the...
Pope Leo has written to the leaders of the Society of Saint Pius X, the traditionalist fraternity of priests founded by French Archbishop Marcel...
Last night, American World Cup broadcasters insisted on calling Turkey, as I have always known that country to be called, “Türkiye” (rhymes with...
Congress could just let the housing legislation come into effect and throw their own party and media availability for it. Trump has said he won’t...
Ambrose Evans Pritchard picks apart the economic case that has been launched to criticize Brexit and fertilize the ground for a case to rejoin the EU....
Over at Unherd, Poppy Sowerby defends American excess: If all the intrepid fans making their way to the home of the brave have to cling on to is some...
Tom Cruise is so determined to entertain big-screen audiences that now every single film release of his is billed as an “event.” The release of a...
Last week the Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to the Trump administration’s Section 301 tariffs on China. These are used against...
There was a report in the Wall Street Journal last week about a diet that is sweeping through the White House, from RFK Jr. to Vice President Vance,...
Over at Unherd there is a wonderful piece on “The Obama Carbuncle” — the hideous presidential library that has been constructed in Chicago to...
https://x.com/SohrabAhmari/status/2066291987892871659?s=20 I do. It's almost by accident. I have a few friends who were devoted supporters of...
Last summer, researchers at Apple released a very important research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking, Understanding the Strengths and Limitations...
Allison Pearson, self-described “libertarian at heart,” writes a surprisingly impassioned defense of the U.K.’s proposed smartphone ban for...
The extremism of the reaction to an announced "memorandum of understanding" between the U.S. and Iran has been something to watch. Rumors of...
Over on a homepage filled with dread about the new Iran peace deal, I have a piece about recreational baseball, the kind sponsored in my area by local...
It’s astonishing that Irish and British commentators are trying to hold on to these old familiar tunes. "Very poor white people” are being...
It’s astonishing to consider that Mexico is hosting 13 World Cup games, sharing host duties with the U.S. Estadio Azteca in Mexico City will host...
“I love it” said President Trump when asked by reporters about inflation hitting a three-year high, “the numbers were great.” Reports The...
Aris Roussinos, who has been living in Belfast for some time, says that the normal sectarian divisions are still the structural and social...