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<title><![CDATA[R.R. Reno - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21870.xml</link><description><![CDATA[R.R. Reno]]></description><category domain="21870">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk Helped Defeat the Old, Failed Consensus]]></title>
							<link>https://firstthings.com/a-turning-point-for-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last summer, the nearly successful attempt to assassinate Donald Trump took my mind back to April 1968. Today, when I heard the terrible news that Charlie Kirk had been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pope Leo Must Revive Catholic Social Teaching]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/pope-leo-must-revive-catholic-social-teaching/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don't envy Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV. He inherits a modern tradition of Catholic social teaching ill-suited to the 21st century.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pope Francis Published His Suicide Note]]></title>
							<link>https://firstthings.com/pope-franciss-apocalyptic-dream/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis published his suicide note. It took the form of a letter to the American Catholic bishops. In so many words, the Holy Father urged his brother bishops...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Refranchise the Young and Restore the Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/we-must-refranchise-young-restore-middle-class-opinion-1672658</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The real issue is not employment but ownership. Most policymakers refuse to confront the hard truth that millions of Americans are being transformed into serfs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nationalism and Populism Are the GOP's Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/nationalism-populism-are-gops-future-opinion-1553161</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Times have changed. As is often the case in human affairs, yesterday's solutions give birth to today's problems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Decision a Striking Display of Sophistry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/06/a-striking-display-of-sophistry</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's decision in Bostock v. Clayton County gives the LGBT movement a powerful bulldozer with which to demolish all public expressions of dissent from its agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Coronavirus Reality Check]]></title>
							<link>https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/04/coronavirus-reality-check</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus pandemic is not and never was a threat to society.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Profound Connection Between Easter &amp; Passover]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not just that the Last Supper was a Passover Seder. Both holidays are about the dead rising to new life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Both Parties Lost the White Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/opinion/campaign-stops/how-both-parties-lost-the-white-middle-class.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Long after the dust settles in Iowa '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and New Hampshire, and even the 2016 campaign itself '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' one question will remain: Why, after decades of supporting the liberal and conservative establishments, did the white middle-class abandon them? Wherever Donald J. Trump and Bernie...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Benedict: A Radical Who Craves Continuity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/12/the-pontificate-of-continuity</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>R.R. Reno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve never met Benedict XVI, but I feel as though I have.  Or at least I  think I have a pretty good sense of how his mind works: clear, to the  point, and earthy.  OK, maybe not D. H. Lawrence earthy, but for a  German university professor very direct, concrete, and capable of a ...]]></description>
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