Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

We have arrived at a peculiar moment when our elite institutions and discourse seem to be utterly ignorant of their own philosophical and cultural legacy.

Some of the blame for a poor debate lies with the GOP politicians on stage, but most of the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of CNBC.

As an advisory committee to the Pope, the synod has no real power in the Catholic Church, but it is still important because of the fissures it reveals.

By going all-in on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the war in Syria, Putin has put Russia at the center of the great game in the Middle East.

Even those who hate pro-life politics should be concerned about the fact that Planned Parenthood misleads women about medical procedures.

On both the form and the substance, Francis represents a continuity with papal teaching, not a break.

At the end of the day, same-sex marriage acted as a catalyst for all sorts of other trends that made Christians realize just how little work they had done, and just how much they still have to do.

Conservatives suffer from the perception that their talk about the family is just that: talk. A pro-family agenda with meat on its bones would be the best way to address this problem.

The actual trends of religiosity across the world suggest that the 20th century was probably the high point of secularization.

La Manif Pour Tous, the mass-protest movements against France’s Socialist government’s same-sex marriage bill, put more than a million people on the streets, won real concessions from the government, and more importantly created a new sense of a young, eager and growing Catholic social conservative movement in France.

Conservatives should put some meat on their pro-family rhetoric, not just point out the cost-benefit problems of universal preschool.

Poverty is a deeply entrenched phenomenon that requires some specific responses, and conservatives are positioned to offer unique solutions.