The Dispatch

Books for Christmas 2025

December 3, 2025 George Weigel 4

Surveys indicate that reading books is dropping precipitously across all age groups. This is a tragedy in itself; it’s also a social disaster, as a post-literate society risks becoming a post-rational society. All the more […]

Columns

Faith here and now

December 3, 2025 James Kalb 4

Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It […]