A Benediction for Mimi

by Joshua T. Katz

I like to imagine that Mimi, who died some forty hours after her great-granddaughter’s benediction, is now discussing the matter with Poppi over heavenly drinks and dinner. Continue Reading »

26 Oct 2023

The Old Evangelization

by Bronwen McShea

As a historian who studies missionaries, I am sometimes asked by my fellow Catholics: How did the Church think about evangelization in the past compared to the present? Typically it is clear that they regard one age as wiser than the other. The more progressively inclined assume that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2021

Tell the Universal Christian Story

by Mark Bauerlein

Anna Wierzbicka joins the podcast to discuss her new book, What Christians Believe: The Story of God and People in Minimal English. Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2021

The Lost Adolescence of “Like”

by Mark Bauerlein

The sooner parents and teachers coach their charges out of the “like” disease, the more their charges will grow and prosper. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2017

The Inescapability of Metaphysics

by Marion Montgomery

We as academicians are “lovers of wisdom” first and last, and should we not be so, we would be serving under false pretenses as professors of higher education. To love wisdom is not, of course, to be wise, as if our beginning were our end. To love wisdom is to desire and labor toward wisdom . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1993