Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Laudate Deum Barely Mentions Christ
Laudate Deum (“Praise God”), Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on the climate crisis, released in Rome today, has…
Power Failure
Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It by sohrab ahmari penguin…
Sinéad O’Connor’s Cross
Sinéad O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer-songwriter, died in July at age fifty-six. No cause of death has…
Tarkovsky’s Sublime Terror
Andrei rublev, the masterpiece of the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, opens with a failed attempt to…
The Fateful Nineties
For Americans, the 1990s are both the most sharply defined and the most fuzzily understood of modern…
The Road to Stella Maris
When Cormac McCarthy died in June at age eighty-nine, the news touched off grief and adulation such…
Voice of the Voiceless
We all seem to be desperately searching for roots. From the fussy private pastime of Ancestry.com, to…
We Are Repaganizing
There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019…
An Offer We Must Refuse
In his masterwork, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche’s mythic hero carries a message—“God is dead!”—throughout the earth,…
Briefly Noted — 10/23
Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interestedby eva brannpaul dry, 612 pages, $29.95 At ninety-four years old, Eva Brann…
Free and Conservative
Avik Roy and John Hood recently launched what they hope will be a movement, Freedom Conservatism. In…
Leisure and Liberality
Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life by kevin hood gary cambridge,…
The Loss of Wonder Leads to Secularism
The God Desireby david baddielharpercollins, 112 pages, $14.99 I almost never read books by atheists—not since the time…
The Spiritual Cost of the Extracurricular Regimen
It’s the start of a new school year, which means students are diving back into classes and…
The Blessed Ulma Family and Our Catholic Moment
It’s a rare occasion when the word “unprecedented” can be used for a Church whose history extends…
