Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Pope Leo XIII and Contemporary Catholic Contentions

George Weigel

Given everything else going on these days, it may seem strange that a 129-year-old encyclical by Pope…

Bach and Pythagoras

Dan Moller

Anyone who begins playing Bach as an adult will notice two things: that he should have started…

Briefly Noted

Various

The Telling:How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Lifeby mark gerson st. martin’s essentials, 352 pages,…

Civics after Midnight

Timothy E. G. Bartel

Imagination is a monarchy;They cannot rule where they cannot decree.Just think of Solzhenitzyn underground,His manuscripts in danger,…

Class Acts

Casey Chalk

Another summer, another moving season in Northern Virginia, a region filled with peripatetic military and federal families.…

Infinite Hitlers

Sam Kriss

Civilizationsby laurent binettranslated by sam taylorfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 In 1980, the soldiers of the…

Just Here

Ephraim Radner

A young friend of mine recently fell victim to an unexpected and horrific illness. For some time, it…

Letters

Various

Karl Barth I read R. R. Reno’s charitable words on Karl Barth with great interest (“Karl Barth,”…

One-Man Revolution

Jacquelyn Lee

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin:Easy Essays from the Catholic Workeredited by lincoln ricefordham, 864 pages, $34.95 In…

Signs of the Times

R. R. Reno

The woke revolutionaries get the headlines. A psychologist speaking at Yale fantasizes about killing “white people.” Princeton’s…

Sticks and Stones

Diane Thiel

Some say it like a charmin the face of words heavy as stone,or a riddle of subtle…

The Godliness of Gaming

Liel Leibovitz

American popular culture is not particularly welcoming of anyone committed to serious moral reflection. Dip your toes…

The Most Controversial Man in France

Nathan Pinkoski

Éric Zemmour is the most important media personality in France today. He is also the most controversial.…

The Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Ned Desmond

The technologies referred to as “artificial intelligence” or “AI” are more momentous than most people realize. Their…

Upper-Class Christianity

Stephen Wolfe

Jesus and John Wayne:How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nationby kristin kobes du mezliveright,…