March 2024

A few months ago, I predicted that the Francis pontificate would seek to establish cordial relations with the…

For a long time, what Alexis de Tocqueville called the American “spirit of freedom” was balanced by…

On July 4, 1776, as several dozen sweating American colonists sat in the stuffy Pennsylvania State House…

No two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but…

Over the last half-century, dozens of remarkable Catholic women writers have fallen almost entirely out of print.…

Biblical Themes For a magazine devoted to religion and public life, the piece by R. R. Reno…

Pope Francis has denounced capital punishment in recent years, and responses from concerned Catholics have focused largely…

In certain corners of the internet, a new form of anti-feminism is gaining currency. Rather than extol…

Our culture is full of angry women—angry at misogynist men, angry that careerism hasn’t brought the fulfillment…

Years ago, I spent a month with my family in Burundi. I had once worked there when…

Earlier this year, a Seattle-based journalist named Tariq Ra’ouf took to social media to explain the logic…

Homer and His Iliad by robin lane fox basic books, 464 pages, $32.50 The Iliad by homer,…

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by jennifer burns farrar, straus and giroux, 592 pages, $35 Anyone who lived…

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by abigail shrier sentinel, 320 pages, $30 Is there…

A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition by paul a. soukup baylor, 240…

How to describe what can’t beseen, invisible, yet universal,what is, has been, will always be,the Endless One,…

Before I formed you in the womb, my son,I knew you. Knew you long before that highspring…

You’re bound to lose: the house will always win,in time. At first, though, Fortune flatters thosewho yield…

now thou but stoop’st to me—Ben Jonson The falcon like a teardrop heaven criesfrom higher than the…