Michael Brendan Dougherty

A backlash to the backlash is forming. We can’t be complacent.

In an age of disintegration, Italian delis are keeping the art of celebrating the rhythms of life alive.

Traditional Catholics are optimistic about their movement, and for good reason: It’s growing.

The great consolation of this big freeze has been cozying near the living room fireplace, around a real fire, and giving in to children’s demands for s’mores.

The establishment of a duty not to be burdensome in a society with legal suicide and our upside-down demographics is a recipe for mass murder.

The change is a credit to him and the novel MAHA political coalition.

My crash course, in seven units.

The team has approached its most distinctive economic policy in a way that maximizes its ability to negotiate, but not its ability to play defense.

For most of us, the resolutions we need to make to bounce back from a difficult year don’t have to be hyperspecific.

We must acknowledge that the badges of middle-class life have become harder to achieve, no matter our technological advances.

Despite the hysteria, the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy seeks a better, healthier relationship with Europe.

An argument from JD Vance’s nomination speech continues to stir debate.

Overwhelming majorities once believed that working hard and playing by the rules would grant the next generation a better life than their parents’.

Populists are as vulnerable to magical thinking as ideologized elites, and just as prone to rash action.

A House of Dynamite succeeds as a piece of exploratory journalism but fails as a drama.

The problems it solves are real but comparatively minor. The risks it creates are enormous.

God rest him.

Take heed.

Even progressive Catholics understand this.

The U.K. debate about medically assisted suicide involves a certain denial of the true state of humanity.

Erika Kirk and Donald Trump channel the American right’s spirit.

We need to find the courage to speak as free men.

Yet we know how to prevent murders like the one in Charlotte; it doesn’t involve another national conversation.

At every age, I’ve tried to squeeze more and more out of Augusts that somehow seem to pass in a few flashes rather than languid weeks.

Instead of diverting German resources to the south and shortening the war, it exhausted the Allies and extended it.

The American right is stalked by the suspicion that Trumpism is a phase.

Not even to end the war.

What would it mean as a policy for Irish people to expect that the bottom 10 percent of jobs be taken up by immigrants?

This is baseball practice for my kids, but something else for me.

It’s not just red tape holding back government-funded exploration and innovation. It’s a new cultural pessimism about the future.