We live in a culture where everyone actually wants to be elite—even though more and more people are decrying elitism. What would it mean to embrace our own blessed ordinariness?
A retrospective at the Jewish Museum draws attention to Ben Shahn, whose art tells the story of twentieth-century life from the perspectives of immigrant workers, tenant farmers, and city-dwellers.
For all their differences, both Jordan Peterson and Ross Douthat engage in a pragmatic effort to enlist belief on behalf of a reactionary political project.
Trump may waffle about how much economic damage he’s willing to inflict in his deportation campaign, but his hateful rhetoric has a momentum of its own.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines," but as secretary of HSS, he is steadily dismantling our national vaccine infrastructure.
William F. Buckley's critique of Pope John XXIII was one of the most daring episodes in the conservative eminence's career. He later wished it never had happened.
Close to one in five American Catholics is vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” regime. Paul Moses reports on how this monstrous policy will wound the U.S. Church.
Chicago Catholicism is distinctive and one of its own is now the pope. What might Robert Prevost's South Side upbringing teach us about the man who would become Leo XIV?
Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir is a horrifying exposé of misbehavior at Facebook. But she never fully explains why she joined such a ruthless company in the first place.
Pope Leo XIV’s choice of papal name is profoundly significant. What might the new pontiff have to say about the social and technological challenges facing us in the 2020s?
Insofar as Catholic neglect of the plight of the Palestinians stems from guilt about the Holocaust, it’s long past time to rethink how this guilt is addressed.