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The Secure Bond Marriage Needs Today

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Jennifer S. Bryson April 17, 2026 0
In 1949, Ida Friederike Görres wrote, “That which is unnatural … people say, is indissolubility.” She disagreed. By 1971, when she sent her final book, What Binds Marriage Forever (CUA Press, 2026), to the publisher, she saw [...]
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Is the war in Iran just?

J. Budziszewski April 14, 2026 73
It has been said that the first casualty of war is truth.  I wonder whether we should say instead that the first casualty of war is clear reasoning, even on the part of intelligent and [...]
Essay

A Realist Outline of History, Part One

Joseph K. Woodard April 12, 2026 7
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part essay. Most diagnoses of our current cultural malaise have focused on either of two narrower causes: the ideological and idealistic, or the organizational and materialistic. [...]

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