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In 2014, when Kevin Malone’s opera Mysterious 44 premiered in Manchester, England, the production featured narrative voiceovers by Richard Dawkins. It was a fitting choice. Funded in part by...

A controversial abortion case reaches the Supreme Court, and men in black robes impose their religious views on the country. Counter to the justices’ expectation, a diverse movement rises up in protest...

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company of writers renowned in their day who are no longer taken seriously, or for that matter read much, by most adults...

The Pride flag is progressive America’s banner. Before it was ­unfurled, most gays stayed in the closet. With the advent of Pride, they became out and proud. Over time, gay pride came to be as American as...

The great essayist William Hazlitt observed that there is pleasure in hating. “Without something to hate,”...

You can learn everything you need to know about our collective state of mind from the fact that the most talked-about book of the year is titled If Anyone...

Last year the United Nations Population Division predicted that global population will peak in approximately sixty years, at around 10.3 billion people. After that, the number of human beings will begin to fall...

The Catholic Church never condemned the theory of evolution nor came close to doing so. One might have expected otherwise: Many of the factors that had led to the Galileo fiasco...

A year after I became a Catholic, when my teenaged son was thinking about college, we visited Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the days and weeks following my...

When in April of 2025 the Hastings Center for Bioethics (the oldest bioethics think tank in this country) revealed its new five-year strategic plan, one of six “values” specified...

"Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not” (Jon. 3:9)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini had only just turned twenty when he finished his sculpture of ­Aeneas, the mythical founder of Rome, in his escape from the conquered city of Troy....

I have cancer,” the elderly woman ­announced from her hospital bed high above York Avenue in Manhattan. “But cancer is not the sickness. Cancer is the cure. Because cancer...

Oxblood, bifold, kept In a back bedroom Closet all these years, It dates to my time Of adolescence, And has the…

Many may not notice the young rabbit, caughtin the thicket of brush near the bottom left-hand corner, because there is so much to seein the center: an angel of...