Michael Brendan Dougherty

While restrainers may not have won the debate about strikes on Iran, the president is still operating under the restraints of public opinion.

A controversy over a pastor’s comments about the Muslim call to prayer is a familiar one.

Sure, take the wheel.

The latter still provide the GOP coalition with electoral muscle.

The structures of self-government do impose burdens on the imperial presidency. That’s the point.

Can air power change a regime’s character and orientation?

There is simply no way to talk about justice, or ordering the polis, without some reference to morality and metaphysics.

The fact that these movements have emerged in so many different countries in one era effectively rules out some popular explanations.

Time to build again.

There is a kind of romantic streak to U.S. relations with Europe in the Trump era.

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.