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YouTube Revolution
Though I have long and volubly condemned all forms of “web life,” I sheepishly confess to having…
Why I Plant Redbuds
“If I knew that tomorrow was the end of the world, I would plant an apple tree…
The Fraud of Higher Education
In The Republic, Plato’s Socrates tells of a man who lives with a beast. The beast is…
Redeeming the Time with St. Patrick
Every St. Patrick’s Day, some people insist on repeating “surprising” facts about Ireland’s patron saint. One of…
Making Sense of Hell
Eternal damnation has never been a wildly popular doctrine, but it seems to be coming under particular pressure at…
The Art of Spiritual Warfare
This Present Darknessby frank e. peretticrossway, 375 pages, $14.99 As a teenager, I was convinced that a…
The Pell Affair: Australia Is Now on Trial
Has it occurred to anyone else debating the perverse verdict rendered against Cardinal George Pell, which convicted…
“Synodality” and the Rome Abuse Summit
Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s…
Evangelical Ruskin
2019 is the bicentennial year of John Ruskin’s birth, and he is suddenly all the rage. London’s…
Methodist Madness
Duke University, which prides itself on being an elite and cosmopolitan institution of higher learning, has suddenly…
Renewing Human Rights
When Eleanor Roosevelt and a small group of people gathered at the behest of the U.N. in…
Covington Catholic’s Failed Leaders
Shame on our Catholic and conservative leaders. Many of them joined the cyber-lynching of their own young…
Sin Aboundeth
The story of offshore finance is a familiar one. Individuals or companies want to avoid taxes, fines,…
Why I Assigned The Kingdom
Last week, a controversy erupted over a book I assigned in a five-student advanced literature seminar at…
False Counsel at Fordham
Shortly before my freshman year at Fordham University, I came out to my parents and close friends.…
