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What Are We Fighting For?.“Chesterton’s soldier fights for love of home, faith, and freedom. An updated NDS should articulate that love, boldly naming religious freedom as an American value it defends. Our nation, and the world, will be stronger for it.”.— Christopher J. Motz

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The Therapeutic Subversion of Parental Rights. “Is “mental health” the new cudgel by which the state subverts parental rights? Developments on both sides of the Atlantic suggest the answer may be yes.”. — John M. Grondelski (@JGrondelski)

RT @JGrondelski: Undermining parental rights is an international phenomenon: Pritzker wants to do it in Illinois, t….

“While the evil of clerical sexual abuse of minors is a scourge that must be stopped, the answer to the problem does not lie in the intentional abandonment of the rule of law or the deliberate neglect of due process for accused priests.”. — Michael J. Mazza for First Things

Faith Before Technology. by Michael Wilkerson (@MW_Stormwall). “How should Christians, in light of their faith, think about the recent explosion in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and other rapidly advancing technologies?”

Making Deaf Children: Eugenics is Eugenics is Eugenics. “An interesting study has found that the children of deaf parents who can hear oppose the right of deaf people to select embryos for deafness.”. — Wesley J. Smith (@theWesleyJSmith) in 2009 for First Things

The Rise and Fall of English Exceptionalism. “The English have always thought highly of themselves. ”.— Jack Chisnall (@holyfooling).

Winners of the Second Annual First Things Poetry Prize. T. O. Brandon (@TyndallOBrandon) has won first place for his poem “Madonna and Child (after Giotto).” Brian Brodeur (@bbrodeurpoet) has won second place for “Not Versed in Country Things.”. Both poems will be published in

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“Spengler and Pollan deny plants are actually conscious, but their rhetoric outruns them. Plants “evolved traits that aided them in better recruiting humans to disperse their seeds”; this, Spengler argues, is the true origin of agriculture.”. — Peter J. Leithart (@PLeithart)

“Catholic leaders need an alternative. The other day I learned that the Classic Learning Test (@CLT_Exam) is embarking on that very project: courses that are just as rigorous as AP but put Christianity in its actual place in the American past.”. — Mark Bauerlein @mark_bauerlein

Erasing Christianity from American History. “Kids who take AP history and civics leave with a false picture of the past, a secular vision of a religious nation. This is historical malpractice. It scrubs Christianity from the American heritage.”. — Mark Bauerlein (@mark_bauerlein)

RT @mark_bauerlein: Of the 50+ topics raised in the College Board’s AP US history guide, only one has any bearing on religion. https://t.c….

The Death of the Oxford Don. Ever seen a young fogey in an unseasonable tweed? . In this episode, Jaspreet Singh Boparai joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Waugh Against the Fogeys,” from the August/September 2025 issue of the magazine.