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New York: The Art of the Beautiful Lecture Series: “Art, the Beautiful, and the True Good in Dante's Purgatorio” November 7, 7:30 pm Now in its third year, this lecture series is being held at the Catholic Center at New York University. Lectures will be followed by a reception and sung . . . . Continue Reading »

In the Absence of a Shepherd
Eliot Milco, Paraphasic

Diversity in the Christian University
Elizabeth Corey, Public Discourse

Both/And Philanthropy
Leah Libresco, Fare Forward

Why Self-Driving Cars Must be Programmed to Kill
Staff, MIT Technology Review

Is God a Monster? No and Yes
Daniel Otto Jack Petersen, Theophilus Theologue

The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting
Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Rethinking Birthdays
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

You’re Not Chesterton, And God’s Cool With That
David Mills, Aleteia

Feminists should cheer Paul Ryan for taking a stand for work-life balance
Dara Lind, Vox

Dear Synod Fathers: You Missed a Step
Helen Alvare, Crux

How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?
Jonathan Haslam, Salon

Pimm's O'Clock
Rachael Dymski, Humane Pursuits

On the Road with Dante
Karen Swallow Prior, Gospel Coalition

When Churches Get Burnt by the Offering: Should Ministries Return Stolen Donations?
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today

The Man Who Thought of Everything
Algis Valiunas, New Atlantis

Last Word with Farmer-Author Wendell Berry
Corby Kummer, Modern Farmer

Big in Iceland: Paganism
Uri Friedman, Atlantic

The Strength of the Hills is Not Ours—Our Modern Identity Crisis
Jake Meador, Mere Orthodoxy

In Defense of Christendom
Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

Americans Aren't That Interested in Benghazi
Leah Libresco, Five Thirty Eight

Lecture Me, Really
Molly Worthen, New York Times

Shroud of London
Amy Henderson, Weekly Standard

Saints, Accidentally
Julia Powers, Fare Forward

Benedict and Nothing
Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Love, Dad
David Desrosiers, City Journal

Holy Foolery
Ken Kalfus, New Yorker

Finding The Words for Faith: 
Christian Wiman is America's Most Important Christian Writer
Matthew Sitman, The Dish

Confessions of a New Confessor
Fr. Gabriel Torretta, OP, Ethika Politika

Legalized Assisted Suicide Moves Us Scarily Close to Real-Life Horror Story
Russell Shaw, Aleteia

Playboy Goes Respectable: With Nudity Ubiquitous, a Porn Pioneer Covers Up
Matthew Schmitz, National Review

The Powerful, Unlikely Appeal of Modern Witchcraft—Even for a Skeptic
Alex Mar, NY Mag

A Mother Under Wraps
Eve Tushnet, American Conservative

I am reading The Blondelian Synthesis: A Study of the Influence of German Philosophical Sources on the Formation of Blondel's Method and Thought by John McNeil. It's a really fine, detailed scholarly study of the influence of Spinoza, Kant, Schelling and Hegel on Blondel. I was enjoying it so much I googled John McNeil to find out if he wrote anything else! Continue Reading »

Mind the Gap: Neuroscience, Transhumanism, and Human Nature
William E. Carroll, Public Discourse

Discovering the Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible
Jeffrey Alan Miller, Times Literary Supplement

Jafar Panahi's Remarkable Taxi
Richard Brody, New Yorker

Music, Memory, and the Death of St. Stan's
Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative
Rachel Donadio, New York Times

Sluttery and Shakespeare
B. D. McClay, Hedgehog Review

If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy
Walter Kirn, Atlantic

Glory and Vainglory
Charlie Clark, Fare Forward

Camille Paglia's Ambiguous Critical Legacy
Stephen Eide, National Association of Scholars

In Which Three Adults Discuss The Once and Future King Seriously and At Length
Johannah King-Slutzky And Joe Howley, Toast