Editors

Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
Justin McBrayer, The New York Times

Music to Shoot You By
Ted Gioia, The Daily Beast

Elegiac
Elisabeth Murawski, Poetry Daily

What Notre Dame Does Better Than Yale
Margaret Blume, Ethika Politika

Problematic
Matthew Schmitz, The Hedgehog Review

The Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Memory
Image Journal

‘An Incorrigibly and Confusedly Religious Nation'
Randy Boyagoda, The Wall Street Journal

The Virtues of Lent
Br. Joachim Kenney, O.P., Dominicana

The Religious States of America, in 22 Maps
Niraj Chokshi, The Washington Post

The Aesthetes: When Kitsch Was Avant-Garde
Jacob Willer, Standpoint

I’m reading a lovely novel by Rumer Godden called “In This House of Brede.” It’s very British, written in quietly intelligent prose. Godden respectfully narrates the inner-workings of a Benedictine abbey—the nuns’ working out their salvation together, emotion, temptation, mystery, and all. Continue Reading »

“The Art of the Beautiful,” a Lenten Evening of Recollection, and more.

The Bells of Ordinary Time
Tessa Carman, Fare Forward

The Loss of Faith Made Music Mute
Oliver Rudland, Standpoint

Endless Love
James Parker, The Atlantic

The Novel as Protestant Art
Joseph Bottum, Books & Culture

Patriarch Urges Prayer After at Least 90 Christians Kidnapped in Syria
Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency

Interviews: Philip Larkin, The Art of Poetry No. 30
Interview by Robert Phillips, The Paris Review

Richard Linklater Might Make an Actual Boyhood Sequel
Matt Wayt, A.V. Club

On Secular Society and Allure of ISIS
William E. Carroll, The Catholic Thing

Saturday Night Lights
Jake Meador, Fare Forward

Thomism in the 21rst Century: Q & A With Father Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Sean Salai, S. J. America

The Twee Tribe
Anna Katharina Schaffner, The Times Literary Supplement

Virtue, Family, and Community
Micah Mattix, The University Bookman

Assaulted by Moscow and Abandoned by Rome
Sandro Magister, Chiesa

The Twee Tribe Anna Katharina Schaffner, The Times Literary Supplement Virtue, Family, and Community Micah Mattix, The University Bookman Assaulted by Moscow and Abandoned by Rome Sandro Magister, . . . . Continue Reading »