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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
Mia Love: My Last Wish for the America I Know
In the last piece she wrote before her death, the late former Utah congresswoman took up her pen—not to say goodbye but to say thank you.
Mia Love
WATCH: They Fled Iran Fearing Death. Then the U.S. Deported Them to Panama.
A group of Iranian Christian converts thought they had made it safely to the U.S. before they were shackled, loaded onto a military plane, and sent…
Tanya Lukyanova
4M
Things Worth Remembering: Death Is a Friend
My ancestors, the ancient Celts, understood that mortality is not an enemy, but something to be embraced.
Sean Fischer
Our Grandmothers, and the Scrolls They Gave Us
Our ancestors endured pogroms, famine, and exile—all while preserving two old Hebrew heirlooms. Tonight, to celebrate Purim, we’ll read from them.
Polina Fradkin and Amit Shemesh
Cardinal Dolan: The Evils of Antisemitism
Jew-hatred and Christianity are incompatible, writes the Archbishop of New York.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan
WATCH: Does the West Need a Religious Revival?
Ross Douthat and Ayaan Hirsi Ali face off against Michael Shermer and Adam Carolla in our latest live debate.
Isaac Grafstein
1HR 26M
The Most Important Campaign Stop Is a Rabbi’s Grave
Why Eric Adams, Javier Milei, Cory Booker, Donald Trump, and other glittering dignitaries are all making a point to visit the Rebbe.
Suzy Weiss
Letters to the Editor: Is the National Endowment for Democracy Worth Saving?
Eli Lake and Ben Domenech debate. Plus: Robert Kraft writes in, and more.
The Free Press
Ross Douthat: Everyone Should Believe in God
Even a flawed or complicated conversion is better than praising religion without practicing it.
Ross Douthat
WATCH: How to Find Love in 2025
Louise Perry speaks on the failures of feminism, Gen Z hookup culture, and America’s return to Christian morals.
The Editors
1HR 15M
A Holy Night in Bethlehem
“Pray for us, father,” he said. “Soon there will be no Christians in the Holy Land.”
Father Patrick Briscoe, O.P.
How Intellectuals Found God
Almost 150 years after Nietzsche said ‘God is dead,’ some of our most important thinkers are getting religion. Peter Savodnik meets the new theists.
Peter Savodnik
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