The U.S. Has Finally Turned Up the Heat on the Houthis—but Will It Be Enough?
A change of policy and a message to Iran.
March 17, 2025
How America Lost Its Sense of Sin
The decline of the Catholic practice of confession and changing attitudes toward morality.
In his recent book For I Have Sinned, James M. O’Toole observes that the practice of confession was widely observed by American Catholics for much of the 20th century, but went into sudden decline in the 1970s, never to recover. Nic Rowan, in his review, examines the different explanations O’Toole offers for this trend, and in doing so addresses some of the broader changes in attitudes toward religion and morality throughout American society in the past half-century:
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How Voluntary Migration Can Undermine Hamas’s Myth of Palestinian Steadfastness
Currently, the international community colludes with Hamas to keep Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
The U.S. Military Should Abandon Bad Ideas That Handicap America and Israel
Refocusing the prevention of civilian harm.
How America Lost Its Sense of Sin
The decline of the Catholic practice of confession and changing attitudes toward morality.
Burning Haman in Southern India
A Purim tradition of the Cochin Jews.