August 2026

Pete Hegseth won’t be around forever—but unless change comes soon, we’ll be paying for his mistakes for years to come.

Alex Wright’s history of American journalists is fun, but those early editors are not exemplars for the future.

Catholic postliberals keen to dismiss dignity as an empty category should consult the Church's Magisterium—and listen to the cries of the vulnerable.

Thomas and Allison Franco have made a founding gift of $1,000,000. We invite you to join them.

As a New York Times columnist, Ross Douthat's commentary on the Church was defined by a central antagonist: Pope Francis.

Ben Rhodes's new book makes an earnest case for the political power of words. But the degradation of our public life can’t be reversed by rhetoric alone.

Church teaching on suicide tells us what we must not do. But it doesn’t give us anything helpful to say to those facing intolerable suffering.

Even in the face of ubiquitous digital “optimization,” Gen Z does not lack work ethic. The state of contemporary work itself just looks bleak.

The aspiration to defeat Islamic extremism is not absurd—America's strategy to do so is.