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The “Tea” App and the New Barbarism 

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Instead of relying on apps, perhaps we can, instead, invite friends over and run our concerns through a more reliable filter: the thoughts, impressions, and wisdom of those who know and love us, off-screen.  
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Celebrating Aquinas in China  

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Thomas Aquinas can be celebrated by the peoples of both oceans.
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Beware of Catholic AI 

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We are not machines and cannot be well formed by them either. Human formation should be primarily human—even if it’s easier and faster to dole out our questions to a machine.
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Coercion and Religion 

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Religion needs the power of government, but not in the way some think. 
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Babies, Made to Order: The New York Times Sounds the Reproductive Technology Alarm 

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If Siddiqui's new moral imperative for artificial, disembodied procreation to ensure perfectly healthy babies becomes the norm, have we not lost something truly beautiful and human, the link between physical sexual communion and procreation?   
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Intensive Parenting Is (Probably) Incompatible with Having Many Kids.

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Is it possible to be considered a good parent today if your top priority is not perfecting your children, but rather simply being their “safe place”? I don’t know the answer, but it seems to me that being a warm and loving parent that children feel safe with is both a worthy and challenging goal. I have often reflected that many of my worst parenting mistakes happened when I tried to convince my kids to be other than the people they are.
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Parenting Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard. You Can Just Tell Your Kids What to Do. 

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Take it from me: girl boss or not, travel sports or not, having kids can be a lot easier and more fun if you just remember that you’re the grown-up.
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How to Take Disaffected Young Men Seriously 

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Right-wing young men see a politics and culture that celebrates every identity but theirs, cultivates a totalitarian ideological culture that directly undermines their beliefs, desires, and life goals, and is set to leave them significantly worse off—socially, economically, culturally, spiritually—than their grandparents. Any successful attempt to reach these young men will need to seriously address these deeply rooted sentiments. 
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Israel and the Promise of Peace: Two Essays

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A pair of essays about the state of war, and of peace, in Israel
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Anti-Semitism: Grave Sin and Civic Cancer 

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Let us do our duty. Let us slam shut and then nail shut the Overton Window on anti-Semitism and thereby help give our country a new birth of freedom rightly understood.  
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WEEKEND SPECIAL: Doctor of the Church, Doctor of the University 

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A spiritual and intellectual dialogue with John Henry Newman
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Christianity and Change 

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There is no one factor that can explain our polarization, nor any one solution. But Newman can still teach us. Without speculating about what Newman would say or do in this situation, let us instead consider some key principles and arguments that Newman sought to establish in his own day, which are just as applicable today. 
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Is Our Growing Fascination with Halloween Dangerous? 

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The recent growth of the celebration of Halloween may not simply reflect nostalgia for an enchanted past. 
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Passing Social Conservative Values from One Generation to the Next: A Q&A with Nathanael Blake 

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Policies matter, as do choices by individuals, families, and congregations. But ultimately our hope, both for rolling back the sexual revolution and then keeping it at bay, is in the grace of God. 
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Solidarity, Communion, and The City of God 

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What is the nature of human dignity? What is it to act justly towards another human being? For Augustine, the answer is that justice towards another human being is a matter of recognizing God’s image in them, and all that follows from that, the deep solidarity and communion that arises from this.
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Is a Broad Coalition Against Physician-Assisted Suicide Possible? 

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The physician-assisted suicide debate is not a discussion about legalizing suicide or even about granting people the legal ability to assist in another’s suicide. Rather, the physician-assisted suicide movement is about an alleged “right” to end one’s life with the help of licensed medical practitioners, whose field is predicated on preserving life.  
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The Bookshelf: What Is “Romantasy,” and Why Is Gen Z So into It? 

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If we can fix our society’s marriage problem, our literary taste may well improve as a result. In the meantime, we can expect spicy necromancer novels to continue to climb bestseller lists. 
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Boys Need Stories, Too 

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There is not—in literature or in life—the well-formed male equivalent of an Anne of Green Gables or a Jo March. Those girls live to read. For boys, it works best the other way around.
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A Sick Man in a Sick World 

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The real work of healing consists not in closing off the body as a personal project but in opening our body to healthy relationships we can have with each other, our environment, and ultimately the highest vocations of love and worship.
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The Accused in This Republic 

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If evil deeds tend to tear us apart, our fidelity to the Constitution helps us to stand united. 
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Why Same-Sex Marriage Momentum Failed to Launch a Transgender Revolution 

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What might have seemed like the next progressive triumph-in-waiting is instead running off the rails. How? Why?
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Here’s Why Church and State Must Remain Separate: A Q&A with Hunter Baker  

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I continue to believe that our best path forward is to respect one another and to avoid the constant temptation to engage in emotional and political manipulation from the left and right.
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Remembering Twain 

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Chernow’s biography denies us the gift that Mark Twain would so generously bestow on his fellow Americans. For her 250th birthday, America deserves better. 
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Retrieving Scholastic Consent Theory 

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Communal consent is usually necessary to authorize civil leaders to make governmental decisions for the whole community, and that this is a demand of general justice on the part of the purported authorities themselves.