Dublin’s Dilemma
by John DugganAs a result of Catholicism's demise, are the Irish no longer governed by a firm, inherited sense of right and wrong? If the answer is “yes,” then Ireland cannot claim that it wasn’t warned. Continue Reading »
As a result of Catholicism's demise, are the Irish no longer governed by a firm, inherited sense of right and wrong? If the answer is “yes,” then Ireland cannot claim that it wasn’t warned. Continue Reading »
Regime Change is about how a society’s elite ought to conduct itself. Deneen’s answer: An elite must aspire to provide common goods that make a virtuous life probable for normal people. Continue Reading »
What is currently being pursued under the name of “synodality” represents the continuation of the Tridentine hierarchy-centered understanding of the Church. Such immobilism risks making Christianity irrelevant. Continue Reading »
The distinction between the Good Man and the Real Man draws the line between toxic and non-toxic masculinity. Continue Reading »
More and more students are voting with their feet, declining to go into debt for an education that displaces classical learning with ideology. Divinity schools, especially those that profess orthodoxy, should know better. Continue Reading »
John Paul II did not pander to the young. He understood from experience that deep within the youthful heart is a yearning for meaning, for nobility, for greatness. Continue Reading »
In Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan has taken the meticulously researched seven-hundred-page book American Prometheus and rendered it into his best film yet. Continue Reading »
We ought to value persons for their habitual qualities and their achievements. Chilton Williamson’s character and accomplishments are in many respects exemplary—especially his Christian hope. Continue Reading »
Our higher education climate and our culture at large render the world of our households, vocations, and communities remote from the world of dorms, reading quizzes, and library all-nighters. Continue Reading »
The inspiration for this column is one of the most wonderfully strange books I’ve encountered in a lifetime of reading (strange and a bit melancholy), John McPhee’s Tabula Rasa. Continue Reading »