The Joys of the Harpsichord
by John AhernThe piano is the instrument of expressive individualism; the harpsichord is the instrument of a vibrant, discursive life of the mind. Continue Reading »
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Tucker Carlson, Class Traitor
by Wilfred M. McClayIn his thirty-year journalistic career, Tucker Carlson hasn’t changed. But his industry has—beyond recognition. Continue Reading »
An Open Letter to the Students of Archbishop Riordan High School
by Salvatore J. CordileoneThe archbishop of San Francisco addresses a group of Catholic high school students on the necessity of fighting the culture of death. Continue Reading »
Too Blind to Be Martyred
by Hans BoersmaObsessive cultural fear of physical suffering and death has blinded and immobilized us, like prisoners staring at the end of the cave. Continue Reading »
Queering Veterans Day
by Carl R. TruemanNot every student at a Catholic university needs to be a faithful Catholic, but the institution itself absolutely must be. Continue Reading »
Catholic Progressives and the Culture War
by George WeigelCatholics who take the texts of Vatican II seriously refuse to truckle to, and in fact resist, those cultural aggressors who think of human beings as mere twitching bundles of morally-equal desires. Continue Reading »
How to Be on the Right Side of History
by James HankinsMaybe, just maybe, in the future of America there lies not some woke utopia but a Renaissance of the Western tradition. Continue Reading »
Nudge, Nudge
by Paul YowellNudge policy, which aims to change citizens’ behavior, came into its own during the pandemic. Continue Reading »
Into the Metaverse
by Samuel D. JamesFor nearly a decade, Facebook has been shifting the company away from an ethos of connecting real people and toward a kind of permanent digital habitation, the contraction of life so as to fit inside algorithms. Continue Reading »
The Future of Faith-Based Schools
by Charles L. GlennReligious schools need to be protected from the imposition of a secular worldview and from the self-betrayal of pre-emptive capitulation. Continue Reading »
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