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How Catholicism Got Cool
Young Americans and people around the world are flocking to the Catholic Church. The Free Press spoke to them to find out why.
Madeleine Kearns
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
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
Hallowed Be Thy App
Since it was launched in 2018, the Christian prayer app Hallow has been downloaded 23 million times. Is this the beginning of a religious revival?
Madeleine Kearns
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
What I Discovered Deep in the Canyons
If I’d come here to hear romantic platitudes about the past, I’d come to the wrong place.
A.M. Hickman
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 Life and Death of the Oldest Hostage in Gaza
Shlomo Mantzur fled Iraq as a child. He tried to never look back. Then came October 7, 2023.
Matti Friedman
Does the West Need a Religious Revival? Join Us for Our Next Live Debate.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ross Douthat face off against Adam Carolla and Michael Shermer on February 27 in Austin, Texas.
The Free Press
The Miracle of the Light
Winston Churchill wasn’t Jewish. But he understood, from the burning bush to the Maccabees to the modern state of Israel, the meaning of the flame.
Meir Soloveichik
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