Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Bob Andrews: A Large and Patriotic Life
The beginning of my friendship with Bob Andrews, who died this past December 2, would probably astonish contemporary…
Truth’s Many Triumphs
We’re living in a paradoxical time. Bad trends seem to get worse. Media bias is rampant. Woke…
How Faith-Based Colleges Can Challenge Technological Misuse
A rash of articles has signaled the looming death of higher education as a consequence of ChatGPT,…
The Importance of Holy Days of Obligation
My understanding of the sensus fidei is guided not by what the secular academy would think is…
Remembering Benedict
Others have written beautifully about the legacy of Joseph Ratzinger and his tenure as Pope Benedict XVI.…
Letters from Rome: #2
The True Joseph Ratzinger The Joseph Ratzinger I knew for thirty-five years—first as prefect of the Congregation…
Old Possum Ain’t Dead
Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’ by robert crawford farrar, straus and giroux, 624 pages, $40 When T.…
Get Real
Nature as Guide: Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology by david goodill catholic university of america,…
Mystic Alcohology
Distilled: A Natural History of Spirits by rob desalle and ian tattersall yale university, 328 pages, $30…
Evening, Washington Metro
Entrained, en masse, an ebb as from a beach: the tide drawn by the Capitol (the dome…
Mystery
You could, for mental exercise, do worse Than work the puzzle of a universe That kindly took…
The Progressive Scarlett O’Hara
In the summer of 2020, HBO removed Gone with the Wind (1939) from its streaming service. The…
Grace and Serendipity
When you’re a linguist, you get used to being asked how many languages you speak. But a…
That Haunting Nihilism
I’m becoming an N. S. Lyons fan. “A Prophecy of Evil: Tolkien, Lewis, and Technocratic Nihilism” is…
Why China Loves Conservatives
Conservatives in the West see in the People’s Republic of China a daunting nemesis: an oppressive tech…
