Victoria Holmes

3 days ago | thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Victoria Holmes |Kevin Williamson |Charlotte Lawson

‘Freedom is at existential risk right now.’ Published April 21, 2025 Jamie Weinstein is joined by sociologist Larry Diamond to explain how democracies rise and fall and what history might tell us about Donald Trump’s slouch towards tyranny. The Agenda:—Signs of a democratic crisis—Weaponizing the government—Missing the forest for the trees—Trump 1.0 vs.

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | Nic Rowan |Michael Reneau |Scott Salvato |Victoria Holmes

For most Catholics in late medieval England, confession was an annual affair undertaken during Lent. Lines were long, and priests and penitents alike were impatient to get it over with. “Pastoral realism therefore demanded that the confession be kept within manageable dimensions,” wrote the Irish historian Eamon Duffy in 1992. “In a time-honoured formula the penitent was to be brief, be brutal, be gone.”James M.