Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

Until seeing it go up in flames, a nation that prided itself on Enlightenment, rationalism and secularity might easily forget that it still had such a thing as a soul.

There was a stir on June 5 over the arrest and jailing, at the Vatican, of Gianluigi Torzi, the financier accused of extorting 15 million euros at the secretariat of state.

But endlessly unpleasant as its constant targeting of me has been, I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it.

Instead of enforcing strict silence, progressives aim to craft a public square in which we are all obliged to echo their views.

Racism is a real problem, but it's part of a much bigger problem.

Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

Such is the process by which we succeed; we walk to heaven backward; we drive our arrows at a mark, and think him most skilful whose shortcomings are the least.

The former nuncio to the United States wrote a letter June 7 praising the president's resolve in response to the recent protests.

On June 2, President Trump signed the Executive Order Advancing International Religious Freedom, but few noticed amid everything else that happened that week.

Once we accept suicide as an acceptable answer to suffering caused by illness or disability, our attitudes toward death become so warped that obtaining suicide for requesting patients quickly becomes the overriding priority.

These "protests" are not about racial justice. They never were. They're about a nation that has become intoxicated by self-righteousness. It's a recreational riot.

"Woman does not wish to turn aside from her higher work, which is itself the end of life, to devote herself to government, which exists only that this higher work may be done. Can she not do both? No!"

There was a time, as a memvber of a white supremacist organization, that I rejoiced as I witnessed riots and the breakdown of relations between the black population and the police.

Welcome to the radical chic redux. Its dangerous enthusiasm can be seen today in the stance of not a few political leaders who have stood by and let our cities burn. Looters are elegized as avatars of a new order of humanity. Their crudities are hailed as prophetic tokens of a brave, new world.

Those who live in locales where "conservatism" is being made illegal — one thinks of the drive-in university campuses — need more robust defences.

Family breakdown among all Americans is a far greater problem today than it was five decades ago.

There remains much to be done to rescue architecture and city planning from servitude and boredom.