Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Favorite Books of 2018
For many years when I was editing Books & Culture, I posted an annual list of favorites.…
The Kominsky Method and the Hollywood Boomers
A new, fascinating genre of comedy has recently appeared. It is generally written by top Hollywood writers…
Coming Attractions for 2019
Two weeks from now, I’ll write in this space about some of my favorite books from 2018.…
Mothers Against Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron deepened one of his rhetorical ruts this fall, again stating publicly that human…
And All Shall Be Well
George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles:Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantmentby timothy larsenivp academic, 150 pages, $16 People…
Against Inevitable Adultery
Human beings are amazingly resilient—but there are times when something inside buckles, and a person comes to…
The Point of Gosnell
I went to see Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer because I thought I ought…
Kissing Purity Culture Goodbye
Last week, twenty-one years after its initial publication, Joshua Harris officially denounced and discontinued publication of his…
The Bookish Life
The village idiot of the shtetl of Frampol was offered the job of waiting at the village…
Crisis at CUA
It’s a shocking and ultimately sad story: The Catholic University of America has summarily suspended William Rainford,…
Educating For Liberty
Educate” derives from the Latin educare, “to lead out.” All education promises an exodus from the darkness…
Master of Intricate Forms
Dana Gioia once outlined the decline of American Catholic writing in the pages of First Things: Stated…
Cold Vulgarity
The promise of critical thinking often fails to deliver, as many commentators have shown. But as world…
Songs of Faith and Yearning
I can’t read Kant for long before my parody switch flicks on. The grand architecture of his…
The Nun and Vatican II
The Nun—director Corin Hardy’s horror movie set in 1952 in a remote, ultra-traditional Catholic convent in Romania—is…
