Matthew Cantirino

Lost in the Cosmos at Thirty Peter Lawler, Big Think The Right’s Reefer Madness Peter Hitchens, American Spectator An Awful Loss, A Daunting Task Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner Post-Liberalism: Death of a Dream? Ted V. McAllister, University Bookman The Protestant Pope Nic Davidson, . . . . Continue Reading »

Guided by a Cloud Br. Joseph-Anthony Kress O.P., Dominicana The Godless Delusion Neilson MacKay, Arma Virumque Turmoil in a Closed Community Sam Leith, Times Literary Supplement The Next Pope and His Name David Gutterman, Jewish Daily Forward Times Obsession with Church Reaches New Heights The . . . . Continue Reading »

The Top 25 Films on Marriage Editors, Image Warning: O’Connor Ahead Kathleen Nielson, Gospel Coalition Lawrence Krauss and Anxiety over Contingency Neil Ormerod, ABC Religion & Ethics Is the Concert Hall Obsolete? Stefan Kanfer, City Journal The Real Differences Between Mahony and Gomez . . . . Continue Reading »

Tyranny on Screen Anthony Sacramone, Intercollegiate Review All This in Remembrance Folke T. Olofsson, Touchstone The Audacity of de Gaulle Henrik Bering, Policy Review How Many American Jews Are There? J. J. Goldberg, Jewish Daily Forward Direct Killing as Intentional Killing E. Christian Brugger, . . . . Continue Reading »

Irony has been the source of some anxiety lately, from this essay in the New York Times (critiqued  here ), to R. R. Reno’s post last week on the HBO series Girls . (Or maybe this uncertainty has been with us for a while now .) Offering a bit of a different take is this article by . . . . Continue Reading »

The Country of Who He Used to Be Brian Doyle, American Scholar Do We Like Bonhoeffer for the Right Reasons? Laura Marshall, Fare Forward Doctors Within Borders Caitrin Nicol, New Atlantis The Catholic-Baptist Synod Timothy George, Christianity Today Is the Essay Extinct? Adam Kirsch, New Republic . . . . Continue Reading »

A Map of Non-European Popes Geographic Travels The Erotic Politics of Benedict XVI John Milbank, ABC Religion & Ethics The Enlightenment’s Race Problem, and Ours Justin E. H. Smith, The Stone Are There Limits to Religious Liberty? Nathaniel Torrey, Juicy Ecumenism The Evolution of the . . . . Continue Reading »

A Request: Tell Me I’m Not Good Enough David Paul Deavel,  Catholic World Report Apologies for Interfaith “Debacle” Caleb K. Bell, Christianity Today More Evidence Exonerating Pius XII Dalya Alberge, Guardian Can Writers Retire? Bill Morris, The Millions More Reflections on . . . . Continue Reading »

Why the State Needs the Church Various, Radio National Paradoxes of Poverty and the Minimum Wage Elizabeth Scalia, Patheos The Pope’s Two “No”s Sandro Magister, Chisea The Mennonite in Me Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on My Head The Powers and Limits of Literature Alan Jacobs, . . . . Continue Reading »

“Pope Emeritus”? Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law Heart Work Louis Markos, Touchstone Money, Culture, Authenticity Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic Should a Reformed Pastor Be Charismatic? Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post How Timbuktu Saved Its Books Tristan McConnell, Harper’s . . . . Continue Reading »