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Our Brothers’ Keepers: Catholics Against Antisemitism
First Things, October 27, 2023.
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Catholics Against Antisemitism: Now More Than Ever
National Catholic Register, October 23, 2023.
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1968 IS SO OVER
First Things, April 15, 2023.
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Mary Eberstadt Replies to Furman University on Campus Protest
The Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2023.
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You Can't Cancel Me, I Quit
The Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2023.
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Giving New Heart to the Wounded
The Catholic Thing, March 25, 2023.
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Secularization, Revisited
National Review, December 16, 2022.
The Deep Roots of Political Rage
Newsweek, November 9, 2022.
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What the Nurses Knew
National Review, July 14, 2022.
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Juan Diego, Great and Small
The Catholic Thing, June 29, 2022.
Catholics ‘Personally Opposed’ to Abortion? A Fallacy
Washington Post, May 23, 2022.
The Next American Awakening Starts Here
The Catholic Thing, May 14, 2022.
Midge the Magnificent
Washington Free Beacon, May 13, 2022.
Children of the Porn
Washington Free Beacon, April 27, 2022.
More, Fisher – and More
The Catholic Thing, December 29, 2021.
Millennials, Put Away Childish Political Things
Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2021.
The Cross Amid the Crisis
The Catholic Thing, September 18, 2021.
Critical Father Theory
The Spectator, July 22, 2021.
Might Trauma Affect Gender Identity?
Newsweek, July 16, 2021.
Girls Will Be Boys
Claremont Review of Books, May 1, 2021.
Mr. President, the Equality Act Defies Your Church's Teaching
Newsweek, April 1, 2021.
More Drugs! Just What America Needs
The Spectator, March 26, 2021.
Mr. President, Your Allies Are Coming for Your Fellow Catholics
Newsweek, February 15, 2021.
President Biden, Speak to the March for Life
Newsweek, January 22, 2021.
The Family Gap
The Spectator, December 30, 2020.
Fury of the Fatherless
First Things, November 11, 2020.
Why is There a Patriotism Gap?
Newsweek, September 29, 2020.
The Left Still Blames America First
The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2020.
Canon Fodder
Claremont Review of Books, August 2020.
The Hidden Trauma of Identity Politics
The Critic, July 28, 2020.
SIX RULES FOR PRO-LIFE RADICALS
First Things, February 20, 2020.
Trudeau, Buttigieg, Harris, Yang: Identity Politics Eats Its Own
The Bulwark, September 21, 2019.
The Lure of Androgyny
Commentary Magazine, September 19, 2019.
Goodbye to "So What?"
First Things, September 13, 2019.
Understanding the ‘Pop’ in Populism
The American Conservative, September 3, 2019.
Identity Politics Runs Much Deeper than Politics
National Review Interview, August, 27 2019.
Redeeming the Prodigal Father
The Catholic Thing, August 6, 2019.
Two Nations, Revisited
National Affairs, Fall 2018.
The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae
First Things, April 2018
Cupid, Interrupted
Claremont Review of Books, March 2018
Our Man in the Vatican
The New Criterion, March 2018
Why the Pro-Life Movement Will Live Long and Prosper
First Things, Jan 23, 2018
Eminem and Gandhi Are Right
The Weekly Standard, Jan 18, 2018
The Zealous Faith of Secularism
First Things, Jan 15, 2018
Where the Revolution Has Led: An Interview With Mary Eberstadt
Catholic News Agency, Nov 20, 2017
A Fisherman On K Street
The Catholic Thing, Nov 2, 2017
Michael Novak by the Sea
The Glamour of Good: Remembering Kate O’Beirne
The Phoenix in the Ashes of the Culture Wars
Confessions of an Armchair (Moral) Geologist
How Protests against Donald Trump Reveal a Class Divide
Progressivism Is As Progressivism Does
The Left Has a Religion: The Supreme Court Just Proved It
Why Animal Lovers Should Abhor Planned Parenthood
The New Intolerance: An Adaptation of the First Annual First Things Lecture,
From Campus Bullies to Empty Churches
You Are More Important Than You Know
A Case for the Moral Consideration of Animals
The Real Made Sacred: On Seventeenth Century Spanish Sculpture
Mothers in Combat Boots
Remembering Karen Novak, 1938-2009
My Irving Kristol and Ours
Pro-Animal, Pro-Life
Is Pornography the New Tobacco?
Is Food the New Sex?
The Vindication of Humanae Vitae
