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
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