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War on the Weak and a Bad Bishop ([link removed])

by R. R. Reno

From the August/September issue: Pot promotion hits the bottom of society the hardest. And while advocates claimed the legalization would put an end to drug dealing in the shadows, this has not happened.
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The Crazy Train Is Decommissioned ([link removed])

by Jacob Akey

Ozzy Osbourne may have renounced the devil, but he embraced his works and his pomps. Satanism is not defined by parish membership; one needn’t sign up for the Church of Satan’s email newsletter to cooperate with the devil—names and symbols have meaning.
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Mamdani and the New Phase of Wokeness ([link removed])

by Gregory Conti

If Mamdani is a socialist, then his is a clerical socialism—targeted at the (aspirant) clerical class’s financial complaints, and framed in terms of their progressive moralism. Wokeness has found its level as the authentic expression of a set of squeezed strivers.
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Waugh Against the Fogeys ([link removed])

by Jaspreet Singh Boparai

From the August/September issue: For Evelyn Waugh, Edward Gibbon epitomized a kind of glibly smug atheism that attracted clever adolescents. He knew it from personal experience; luckily he had managed to outgrow it. Not everybody did.
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From Conclave to Catwalk ([link removed])

by Charlotte Allen

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were both raised as Catholics, and although neither seems to have practiced his faith for decades, their recent collection evidenced a recognition of the power of Catholic tradition and even a certain reverence.
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