Last year, the New York Times Magazine published an article pondering whether the “Libertarian Moment” has come at last. Five months before that, Pew reported that 50 percent of millennials identify as political independents. The same report also found that 51 percent of millennials favor gay . . . . Continue Reading »
Bret Stephens is fed up with Trumpism and he's not gonna take it anymore. As his column in yesterday's Wall Street Journal makes clear, Stephens is appalled that people aren't appalled by the appalling Donald Trump. The tone of his column suggests that Bret Stephens may be losing his . . . . Continue Reading »
The Son of Tears
Br. Augustine Marogi, O. P., Dominicana
The Long Rise of the Secular Faith
Peter Berkowitz, Mosaic
Why Cinema Came of Age a Hundred Years Ago
Pamela Hutchinson, The Guardian
Vox: Where Philosophy Goes to Die
Shaun Rieley, IJReview
Catholic Exceptions and Catholic Rules
Ross Douthat, New York Times
We all hear about the supposed “God of Wrath” in the Hebrew Bible, and the supposed “God of Love” of the New Testament. Those who draw that distinction don’t know their Bibles very well. For the Hebrew Bible celebrates human sexual love, underwritten by the Hebrew Bible’s God, in its . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Lady of Reality
Antony Esolen, The Catholic Thing
The End of Walking
Antonia Malchik, Aeon
Does Belief in God Enhance Gratitude?
Christopher Kaczor, Washington Post
Stephen Colbert on Life, Loss, and Faith
Joel Lovell, GQ
First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
Lisa Nikolidakis, McSweeney's
Inhabiting the Psalms
Heather Walker Peterson, Humane Pursuits
What Should We Do With Bad Catholics?
K. Albert Little, Patheos
Complementarity: Lessons from the Adams Family
Susan Hanssen, Public Discourse
What God Has Joined Together: Religion and the Risk of Divorce
Bradley Wright, Family Studies
Melancholy
Carina del Valle Schorske, The Point
College welcome week activities can tell us a lot about the worldview in place on the campus. Continue Reading »
How Art Became Irrelevant
Michael J. Lewis, Commentary
Is Polyamory Next?
Robert P. George, The American Interest
Practicing Resurrection
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Italian Neighbors Build Social Network, First Online, Then Off
Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times
Class of 2019: Go To Mass
Timothy P. O’Malley, Oblation
Featuring Samuel Alito, Robert George, Elizabeth Prodromou, Brett Scharffs, Mark Tushnet, and Robin Wilson Continue Reading »
Did Religion Make the American Civil War Worse?
Allen Guelzo, The Atlantic
Even Speech We Hate Should Be Free
Mick Hume, Wall Street Journal
Dark Bird Is Home
Michael Rennier, Dappled Things
God Bless America?
Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenicism
The Oldest Message in a Bottle Ever Recovered
Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura
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