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A Few Things About Magnifica Humanitas That Caught My Eye

Don’t worry, I’m not bringing back the old “Caught My Eye” feature. You have to listen to The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM for that. Just...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Three Year College Degrees — Pro and Con

For more than a century, American students interested in post-secondary education had a choice between the good old bachelor’s degree, which took...

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George Leef

Leo Leads on Artificial Intelligence: Wisdom, Challenge, Women & Other Takeaways from Magnifica Humanitas

Artificial intelligence cannot and will not do better than St. Francis of Assisi. This was unsurprisingly confirmed at a Vatican press conference this...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Honoring the Dead at Shiloh

Happy Memorial Day. May it be equal parts reflective and joyful. In that vein, Charlie and I, while on the road for a confidential project, had the...

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Luther Ray Abel

More Lighting, Less Crime. But . . .

Writing in The Atlantic, Elizabeth Glazer, a former federal prosecutor and adviser on public safety, notes how a piece of common sense — that...

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Andrew Stuttaford

An Autopsy on an Autopsy

I read the DNC report and wrote about it. High inflation harmed the Democratic Party more than any other issue in 2024. In a just-released...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

AI and the Regulatory Superpower

Christophe Fouquet is the CEO of ASML, a Dutch company that makes machines that make semiconductors. And when it comes to the world’s smallest (and...

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Andrew Stuttaford

The DNC’s Disastrous Report

The Democratic National Committee released its long-awaited “autopsy” this week on the 2024 presidential election, generating all manner of...

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Nr Staff

Campus Intellectuals Prefer the Iranian Mullahs to America

Azar Nafisi, an expatriate Iranian author, dared to have a mind of her own in a country where the law demanded that she conform to official...

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George Leef

Grab Your Financial Stake in America’s Decline While You Can

The Wall Street Journal published an immensely troubling dispatch on Thursday exposing how cryptocurrency networks — specifically, the formerly...

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Noah Rothman

Kyle Busch, R.I.P.

Going into one of the biggest auto-racing weekends of the entire year — both the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 are Memorial Day...

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Jennifer Tiedemann, Opinion Contributor

How Do You Teach Students Who Can’t Concentrate?

Our education system has been undermined in numerous ways and among them is that many students have very poor attention spans. They can’t read books...

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George Leef

‘Glaciers Are More Than Human Beings’

Environmentalism is growing increasingly radical and irrational, epitomized by the “nature rights” movement that seeks to declare geological...

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Wesley J. Smith

ESG in the Data Center

Climatists tend to either actively oppose (or worse) economic growth or be extremely suspicious of it. Unsurprisingly they would like to be another...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Abortion Pills Kill. Do We Care?

I’m not sure that enough Americans realize what we are doing with these abortion pills. We can’t even seem to pay enough attention to the fact...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Unfinished Shambles of a DNC Autopsy Is Finally Released

Disclaimer: This document reflects the views of the author, not the DNC. The DNC was not provided with the underlying sourcing, interviews, or...

21.05.2026 2

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Jeffrey Blehar

The Deaths Never Stop

A number of years ago, a friend was dying. She had been cryptic about the cancer diagnosis. It’s hard to know what to do. I wasn’t mad; she...

21.05.2026 3

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Palmer Luckey Wants America to Win

Why is America struggling to keep pace with China? Can Silicon Valley help rebuild U.S. military power? And what happens when artificial intelligence...

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Peter Robinson

Living Dying with Barney Frank

I saw recently that Barney Frank, the former Democrat representative who died yesterday, had entered hospice care.   There seemed something so...

21.05.2026 4

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Martin Short, Drawn to God’s Light?

Pray for Martin Short. There’s a new documentary on the comedian on Netflix, so he’s doing interviews. This caught my eye in the New York Times:...

21.05.2026 7

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Learning from a Great Man: Bob Woodson, R.I.P.

Bob Woodson has died.  Those words don’t seem right. He was truly a man who I thought might never die. I remember first encountering him when I was...

21.05.2026 4

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Supreme Court Tightens the Screws on the Cuban Regime

It may not be the largest of steps, but the Supreme Court's decision this morning in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd....

21.05.2026 4

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Dan Mclaughlin

Jeff Bezos’s Subversive Appeal to the Progressive Left

For all the activists' theatrical expressions of contempt for billionaires, they’re not above deferring to the wisdom and expertise of the...

21.05.2026 4

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Noah Rothman

Data Center Joy!

That data centers are siphoning away precious water is a theme that trickles through much of the criticism of them, criticism that typically does not...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Synodality Speaks

The Vatican has released the results of its synodal sessions. It’s one of these weird mystery documents the church puts out that is so in love with...

20.05.2026 4

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Throwing an S-Fit over S-Style Guitars

Fender, the famous guitar maker, has recently won a case in Germany that its Stratocaster style of body is a work of art that can be copyrighted. The...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

No, Strong Pro-Life Laws Have Not Worsened Miscarriage Care

Last week, the American Journal of Public Health published a study analyzing miscarriage care. It purportedly found that pro-life laws are worsening...

20.05.2026 3

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Michael J. New

A Scary Story

An AI brouhaha is brewing in literary quarters. A short story by a Trinidadian writer, as Novi Zhukovsky explains in the Free Press, won the...

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Jessica Hornik

Brilliant Spencer Pratt Ad

Go and read Armond White on the weird compelling satirical style of Spencer Pratt’s ads in the Los Angeles mayoral race. The Real ‘Flight 93’...

20.05.2026 2

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

‘Watershed Bill of Rights’ Initiative Fails in Oregon

In Lane County, Ore., an attempt to grant rights to nature — specifically, to grant “watersheds” the right to “exist, flourish, regenerate and...

20.05.2026 3

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Wesley J. Smith

Against a Legislative Noonday

The Washington Post reports that the House GOP is resurrecting the Sunshine Protection Act. The law would allow states to switch to permanent daylight...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Taiwan Standing for Itself

In the continuing fallout from the short, unflashy summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Xi Jinping, Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Sceptered Aisle

It’s no revelation that the British economy is in a mess, and it’s no revelation that Britain’s Labour government rarely misses an opportunity...

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Andrew Stuttaford

When Education Stops Being About Truth

It used to be the case that our educational institutions focused on teaching students truth and how to find it. But over the last 50 years or so, many...

20.05.2026 6

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George Leef

The Best ‘Chilling Effect’ Yet

Before his resounding primary loss on Tuesday night, outgoing Representative Thomas Massie lent credence to the notion that foreign interests and...

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Noah Rothman

Datapanik in the Year 2026

There was a reference in the Corner yesterday to the “panic over the building of data centers across the country, [with people] citing a variety of...

20.05.2026 4

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Andrew Stuttaford

The Axe Finally Falls upon Thomas Massie

Thomas Massie is gone, and in the end it wasn’t even terribly close. As of this writing, he has lost his race for renomination to Trump-backed Ed...

19.05.2026 4

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Jeffrey Blehar

Warming Up Yesterday’s $28 Lunch

I’m often the first to defend struggling Millennials and Gen Zers. Housing really is harder to achieve now than it was for Boomers. And I don’t...

19.05.2026 4

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Donald Trump Bets on Ken Paxton for the Senate

The news speaks for itself. There’s not much to add except to briefly explain the inevitable: Donald Trump has finally unveiled his endorsement in...

19.05.2026 8

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Jeffrey Blehar

The Data Center Race

Many on the left are in a panic over the building of data centers across the country, citing a variety of resource and environmental concerns as their...

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Nr Staff

The Issue Is the Revolution

Paraphrasing a “radical” associated with the 1960s-era Students for a Democratic Society, the late David Horowitz once said of the activists’...

19.05.2026 9

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Noah Rothman

The Trump Ballroom and Unmanned Aerial System Launch Site

Trump says the roof of his ballroom will protect all of Washington: If a drone hits it, it bounces off. It’s also a drone port....

19.05.2026 9

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Noah Rothman

Bill Cassidy Unchained

Bill Cassidy is free now. That's the downside of targeting sitting members of a narrow caucus in primaries over relatively rare deviations from...

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Dan Mclaughlin

Would New Jersey Bill Authorize Slow-Motion Euthanasia of Dementia Patients?

Serious moves are afoot to allow ending the lives of dementia patients, either by allowing them to be killed by lethal jab euthanasia if requested in...

18.05.2026 8

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Wesley J. Smith

Terrorists Haven’t Just Taken Over Iran — They’ve Run It for 47 Years

I am an ardent admirer of Elliott Abrams, but I find his column today, lamenting that Iran has been taken over by terrorists, as if that just...

18.05.2026 8

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

The Arizona Two-Step May Save Your University

Most people have heard of the Texas two-step, but did you know that there’s an Arizona two-step too? The dances are cousins, yet decidedly...

18.05.2026 9

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Stanley Kurtz

Automating Away Snipers?

If there is a career that might be thought to be safe from automation, (military) sniper would seem to be a contender. Indeed, the armed forces will...

17.05.2026 10

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Andrew Stuttaford

Why Is Everything So Expensive?

Seventy-seven percent of Americans — including 55 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of independents — say that President Trump’s policies...

16.05.2026 10

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Michael R. Strain

Kicking an Ally

Poland has for years been one of this country’s best friends in Europe. Far from being one of the freeloaders that President Trump has rightly...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Yes, Be Skeptical of Claims That the U.S. Hasn’t Damaged Iran Much

Yesterday afternoon, I posted about my skepticism of claims in a New York Times report, relying on unnamed intelligence sources, to the effect that...

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Andrew C. Mccarthy