Paul Baumann

As Sam Tanenhaus shows in his new biography, William F. Buckley was essentially a performer, “a debater, not a thinker.”

Whittaker Chambers’s critique of Ayn Rand was a remarkable forewarning about the crude materialistic worldview we now see in the White House.

Francis's critics are wrong to fear a return to the upheavals of the postconciliar period. In the Church, arguments are a sign of life.

"My wife and I tend to avoid thinking about such things, naïvely assuming that decrepitude and disability will somehow pass us by."

Trump and Vance display a profound failure to understand the hidden strengths of democracies—and the weaknesses of the authoritarian regimes they hope to emulate.

Trump is bad enough without the thought that his rogue regime has been sent by God as some kind of punishment.