Michael Brendan Dougherty

Washington’s lack of interest has, paradoxically, helped Kyiv in some ways.

We are awash in guilt about our failure to optimize.

But how long will major league sports retain their influence on mass culture?

Nobody prepared me for the vicarious joys of youth sports when the youth in question are our sons.

The regime proved more resilient and resourceful than anticipated, and the Trump administration is dealing with the consequences.

The greatest tragedy of Irish history is almost never addressed in the Irish arts. Two films from the past decade are an exception.

Coalition-building in the next round could be difficult.

They’ve lost the mantle of the party of change because the party is so settled in its identity.

A decade ago, Xi Jinping Thought captivated the global class. Trump won the future.

Aimed at the party’s youth.

If Europe doesn’t ease up, it will have to learn the hard way that repression has its limits.

So much that used to belong to our private lives is now a shared record of our interactions with every corporation and server and Wi-Fi signal.

Cole Allen seemed to be aiming to be a smirk in your social media feed.

Americans have traded their time at home, and perhaps their posterity, for more income.

This small nation’s sudden centrality exposes the contradictions of the liberal world order.

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.