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America’s most influential journal of religion & public life.
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Joined March 2009
The December print issue just dropped—and it’s a good one. Read Trevin Wax, Algis Valiunas, Tim Reichert, Damien Thompson, and many more in our pages this month.
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“Marx commented on the effects of industrial capitalism that ‘all that is holy is profaned.’ The same applies to the progressive ideologies of the English ruling class today. Indeed, for them to be validated, all once thought holy not only will but must be profaned, as this
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“And yet the language of desecration is not incidental... That’s what makes the Qur’an a holy book to them. It is not a source of religious teaching. Rather, it symbolizes a repudiation of an allegedly Christian past.”
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“And yet the language of desecration is not incidental... Ironically, as with Coskun, that leadership is committed to acts of conflagration, but they seek only to desecrate the local gods of a previous era, committed to basic freedoms.”
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“One sign of this is the recent interest in renewing blasphemy laws, not to protect the sacred but to disarm those opposed to the pet projects of progressivism. Yet David Shipley noted in The Spectator that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided to appeal the successful
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“Ideas and beliefs that were part of the fabric of the culture until the day before yesterday are now consistently rooted out, opposed, and repudiated with the full force of the cultural establishment. The language of tolerance is used to promote intolerance, freedom to promote
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“From the ridiculous yet sinister arrest of Graham Linehan to the refusal to allow a Catholic group to film at a holy site, the England that I knew is passing.”
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The Sabbath is Back! (ft. J. J. Kimche) In this episode, J. J. Kimche joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “The Rest as History,” from the December 2025 issue of the magazine. https://t.co/hQxIly1ucY
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Excellent article in @firstthingsmag about our late-term abortion investigation, written by @JVanMaren. Check it out:
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On November 27, 2023, thirty-six-year-old Alissa Golob walked through the doors of the Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic in Toronto, Canada. She had two young children at home, $2,137 in her...
"On November 27, 2023, thirty-six-year-old Alissa Golob walked through the doors of the Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic in Toronto, Canada. She had two young children at home, $2,137 in her purse, and was carrying a twenty-two-week baby. The abortion clinic staff assured her that she
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“Every year in Canada babies are born alive after failed abortions and left to die; in 2013, a grim headline in the National Post summed up the Canadian reality: “Birth of a legal quandary: Live-birth abortions a perilous grey zone in Canada’s criminal code... Not a single major
Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry by Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren
https://t.co/DR1V37z2Yo
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“Abortion activists and their political allies are aware of how unpopular late-term abortion is with the public; a 2020 poll conducted for National Post found seven in ten Canadians ‘say abortion should be generally illegal in the last three months of pregnancy, from 28 weeks
Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry by Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren
https://t.co/DR1V37z2Yo
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“The entire report quotes activist after activist condemning Golob’s investigation and accusing her of deception—before reluctantly admitting that her conclusions were correct. In a second front-page story, columnist Chris Selley observed: ‘If I didn’t know better, I would almost
Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry by Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren
https://t.co/DR1V37z2Yo
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“‘Going undercover was personally very difficult,’ Golob told me. ‘My initial urge was to talk to every girl in the waiting room and tell them that they didn’t need to get an abortion, that I could help them. It was also so hard to be pregnant with my beautiful baby boy and to
Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry by Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren
https://t.co/DR1V37z2Yo
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“Golob’s investigation—the first ever pro-life undercover exposé of Canadian clinics—was released last month and forced ugly questions onto the front pages.” @JVanMaren @alissagolob
Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry by Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren
https://t.co/DR1V37z2Yo
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“Over the next three months, the Catholic mom would also go undercover inside abortion clinics in Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary, inspired by the undercover investigations of Lila Rose of Live Action and David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress.” @JVanMaren
Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry by Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren
https://t.co/DR1V37z2Yo
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Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry by Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren
https://t.co/DR1V37z2Yo
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"Was Kahneman’s decision the right one? None of us can know what he faced or the reasons for his actions. Still, we can hope that when our time comes, we will have the courage to withstand the pain and indignities of aging."
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"Still, this focus on our vital years is not satisfactory. The vital years are attractive, but they are not a totality. A flower that does not wilt is artificial. A tiger that cannot be wounded is a stuffed animal, and a building that is impervious to gravity is a fantasy. A man
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