The Geeks Can’t Defeat Death
David Mills, Aleteia
Catholic Archdiocese to Offer 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
David Gibson, Religion News Service
Desire, Deicide, and Atonement: René Girard and St. Thomas Aquinas
Edmund Waldstein, O. Cist., Sancrucensis
Europe’s Cheesy Musical Proxy War
Ivan Plis, National Interest
Secret History of Bioluminescence
Ferris Jabr, Hakai
Your Brain Does Not Process Information and it is not a Computer
Robert Epstein, Aeon
This is How Fascism Comes to America
Robert Kagan, Washington Post
Lewis on Tolkien: “Only Needs A Smack or So”
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things
The Meaning of Food
Ian Sansom, Times Literary Supplement
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…