Theology

As a college student studying theology in the 1990s, I was inspired by many great theologians of…

Theodore Dreiser is ranked among our great authors; he was a syllabus mainstay for as polished a…

The History of Courts and Procedure in Medieval Canon Lawedited by wilfried hartmann and kenneth penningtoncatholic university…

The frequency of my headaches has dropped to one every six weeks or so. (I never say…

Dear Readers,  This version of “The Metaphysics of Democracy” differs from the version that was published in…

At the end of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius, the conspirators who had assassinated Caesar,…

James McAuley had a gift for overcoming first impressions. Manning Clark, the future doyen of Australian historians,…

Blood pressure is rising. Folks are worried about “illiberalism.” In a November issue of the Washington Post,…

The age-old distinction between schoolchildren and university students is fast losing its meaning. On many campuses, the…

Deadly Deserts Paul Griffiths’s sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed (“Against…

Ever since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the notion…

Here’s a simple question for future historians: How is it that the same Catholic Church in Germany,…

I was more ashamed of my Goodwill clothes than of not speaking English when I first came…

Mediation” was a crucial philosophical and political problem for the ancient and medieval worlds. As Pierre Manent…

I offer a frigid smile any time people go into nostalgic raptures about the benefits of memorizing…