The John the Baptist of Post-Truth Politics

by Pete Spiliakos

More than any other politician, Clinton prepared the public for the devil’s bargain Trump would later make with his supporters. Continue Reading »

5 Jan 2017 0

New Year’s Wishes for some Catholic Brethren

by George Weigel

2017 promises to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s wishes: Continue Reading »

4 Jan 2017 0

Rogue One and the Return of Reverence

by Marc Barnes

The Star Wars prequels irreverently secularized the Force, making it a controllable entity, measurable and understandable, infinitely use-able. In Rogue One, the Force becomes spiritual once again. Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2017 0

Silence: Scorsese’s Spiritual Masterpiece

by William Doino Jr.

Beautifully filmed and acted, Silence is as powerful as it is ambitious. Continue Reading »

2 Jan 2017 0

Hast Thou Considered the Heptapod?

by Alexi Sargeant

Communication between different ideological worlds has never been more necessary and never seemed more impossible. This is the premise of the most philosophical blockbuster of 2016, Arrival, a movie that belongs on any best-of-the-year list. Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2016 0

First Things in the Year Ahead

by R. R. Reno

What we need in 2017 and beyond is a renewal of covenant, of the paradoxically empowering bondage of loves and loyalties we gratefully affirm. Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2016 0

Kingdom of Language

by Peter J. Leithart

Despite its title, Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech isn’t mainly about language. It’s about evolution, feckless intellectuals, and leftist politics. Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2016 0

More Fascinating than Fiction

by Fr. George W. Rutler

The first Elizabeth was a genius and a monster. Elizabeth II is neither, and that could be the formula for banality. But it may be its own kind of power—in life and onscreen. Continue Reading »

29 Dec 2016 0

A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”

by George Weigel

In Ontario today, doctors who decline to euthanize their patients are required to provide an “effective referral”: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled patient to a doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that patient. Cardinal Collins is fighting this abomination. Continue Reading »

28 Dec 2016 0

From Atheism to First Things

by Mark Bauerlein

If anyone had said to me in 2005 that a decade later I would be saying prayers every night and working at a religious magazine during the day, I would have laughed. Continue Reading »

28 Dec 2016 0