Is life worth living? “It depends on the liver.” Thus did William James pose the question, as well as the “jocose” answer that was currently circulating, when he addressed the Harvard Young Men’s Christian Association in 1895. He then immediately put his audience on notice that his . . . . Continue Reading »
Ressourcement. It’s a French word that means “resourcing”—or, better, “re-sourcing.” As a term in theology, it calls for renewal based on a return to richer, more original sources, especially the Fathers of the early Church. Born in the Francophone world between the two world wars, . . . . Continue Reading »
joins in to discuss his new book, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. Continue Reading »
joins in to discuss his new book, The Roots of Liberalism: What Faithful Knights and the Little Match Girl Taught Us about Civil Virtue. Continue Reading »
joins in to discuss his new book, Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics. Continue Reading »
joins in to discuss his new book, New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God. Continue Reading »
joins in to discuss his new book, Engaging the Church Fathers in Nineteenth-Century Catholic Theology: The Patristic Legacy of the Scuola Romana. Continue Reading »
joins in to discuss his new book, The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups. Continue Reading »
Onsi Kamel’s article (“Arabic, A Christian Language,” August/September) reminded me of an experience I had while I was a high school student at the American School of Kuwait. The Kuwait Ministry of Education required all non-Arabic-speaking students in the school to take Arabic as a foreign . . . . Continue Reading »
I was recently sipping on chocolat chaud while visiting Paris, observing life leisurely unfurling in the charming Place des Vosges. I found myself contemplating a very difficult question. Like everything of consequence in French culture, that jewel of Western civilization, this question, . . . . Continue Reading »
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