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A selection of recent articles on this topic
Suffering and Silence
I hope that Martin Scorcese’s Silence, premiering this week, will accurately capture the genius of Shusako Endo’s…
Why are Catholic Academics Supporting the Four Cardinals?
On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a score of Catholic academics and pastors—of whom I am…
The Persecution of Professor Esolen
Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher education in the United…
How I Changed My Mind About Pope Francis
Anyone who has stumbled across a long-forgotten diary will understand the embarrassment a journalist feels when he…
Books for Christmas 2016
Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as…
Transgender Conformity
Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that…
Vulgar Deconstruction
Back in the 1970s, when the humanities still set the intellectual tone for the college campus, it…
Leonard Cohen, Religious Alchemist
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian, but he was the poet laureate of another nation: a nation of…
A Childhood Gone to the Dogs
Not too long ago, a business trip took me to the Southern California neighborhood in which I…
Gnostic Longings
Some years ago, an older friend turned fifty and his body suddenly fell apart. He had several…
Hazarding All
The Merchant of Venice consists of three intertwined plots—what some have labeled the “casket plot,” the “bond…
Suzuki Method Uberparenting
My oldest child started piano lessons back in the nineties, due to somewhat base parental motives. A…
Golden Memories of a Golden Anniversary
After Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium was torn down in the old hometown in 2002, I began describing the…
Animal Rights Would Ban Pets
“Animal rights” is often conflated “animal welfare.” But they are not the same—not even close. Animal welfare…
Patty Duke’s Unforgettable Life
Patty Duke burst onto the Broadway stage in 1959, at age twelve. She was cast as Helen…
