Dan Hitchens

E. E. Cummings’s springtime poems express not just wild abandon, but also humble reverence.  Continue Reading »

The apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, for all its strengths, adds to the ambiguities of Pope Francis’s papacy. Continue Reading »

It is alarming how quickly Beijing’s new friends abandon their solidarity with China’s oppressed millions and start flattering the regime instead. Continue Reading »

For Chateaubriand, confession was both a reminder of uncomfortable truths and the remedy we are yearning for.  Continue Reading »

How far may a Catholic go in openly criticizing the Vicar of Christ? Continue Reading »

The terror and dismay of Remainers have helped to demonstrate the non-existence of Enlightenment Man, the thinker who stands only on logic and waves away every distraction. Continue Reading »

How do traditional proofs for God's existence fare in our technological era? Continue Reading »

James McAuley had a gift for overcoming first impressions. Manning Clark, the future ­doyen of Australian historians, met the twenty-five-year-old poet in the crowd at an Aussie Rules game. McAuley was blind drunk, full of wild slogans about art and politics, and looked wrecked even by the usual . . . . Continue Reading »

The archdiocese of Braga, Portugal, now asks divorced-and-remarried Catholics to discern for themselves whether they should receive the Sacrament.  Continue Reading »

Samuel Johnson understood that a society without truth—a society of “fake news”—would inevitably collapse. Continue Reading »