Confidentially Yours: The Banality of the Celebrity Profile and How It Got That Way
Anne Helen Petersen, The Believer
Beauty is Truth: There’s a False Equation
Philip Ball, Aeon
Why Harvard Was Right Not to Ban the Black Mass
Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse
The Don’s Don
Katy Waldman, Slate
The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola
Amy Moran-Thomas, Boston Review
The Church in the Age of Therapy
In 1966, Philip Rieff wrote in The Triumph of the Therapeutic that “Religious man was born to…
Canada’s Deadliest Blind Spot
On September 20, the Daily Mail ran a story with the provocative headline, “Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother…
The Faithful Joy of Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen
Dolly Parton and Fulton Sheen seem to have had little in common. She favored rhinestones; he wore…