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I Found Freedom in Bland
Few understand my love for Missouri, but the Show Me State taught me what it means to be American.
Keturah Hickman
The American Pope
Pope Leo XIV is almost certainly the first Vicar of Christ to have fond memories of the ’85 Bears.
Matthew Walther
Tourists, Tailors, and the Holy Spirit Descend on Vatican City
‘They are made cardinal, then they get fat,’ said the Vatican’s tailor. ‘I have to take their cassocks out, take their sashes out.’
Josephine de La Bruyère
Who Betrayed Anne Frank? We May Now Learn the Answer.
A newly opened Dutch archive challenges the myth of a nation that protected Jews—and sparks a reckoning with the present.
Ruth Franklin
Can America Survive Without Christianity?
Author Jonathan Rauch joins Bari on Honestly to discuss how the success of liberal democracy depends on a healthy Christianity to support it—and if…
Bari Weiss
1HR 3M
The Passion of Pope Francis
There’s a striking symmetry in the timing of Francis’s death: The most influential figure of the global left departs just as right-wing populism rises…
Francis X. Rocca
A Banjo, a Bible, and the Road Back Home
Since I left Mumford & Sons four years ago I hadn’t played banjo live. Oliver Anthony gave me the chance to pick it back up again.
Winston Marshall
Things Worth Remembering: One Easter Night in Europe
Yes, God is everywhere—no farther from us in a Walmart than He is in Vienna’s Stephansdom. But we are creatures of flesh, and a little grandeur helps us…
Rod Dreher
The Patron Saint of Lost Americans
Like so many in this modern, materialistic age, Seraphim Rose lost God. But then a void, a lover, and an Easter service brought him home.
Paul Kingsnorth
Ross Douthat: Why It’s Logical to Believe in God
The New York Times columnist on why miracles are ‘perfectly rational,’ what he’s praying for this Easter, and the contest for Elon Musk’s soul.
Bari Weiss
1HR 30M
America and the Exodus
The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our Founding Fathers were profoundly inspired by it. So was Cecil B. DeMille.
Meir Soloveichik
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Leonard Leo—the Man Who Rebuilt the Supreme Court
The Federalist Society chairman talks Trump, threats against judges, and why the pro-life movement is at the lowest point in its history.
Bari Weiss
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