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The Geeks Can't Defeat Death
David Mills, Aleteia
Catholic Archdiocese to Offer 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
David Gibson, Religion News Service
Desire, Deicide, and Atonement: René Girard and St. Thomas Aquinas
Edmund Waldstein, O. Cist., Sancrucensis
Europe's Cheesy Musical Proxy War
Ivan Plis, National Interest
Secret History of Bioluminescence
Ferris Jabr, Hakai
Your Brain Does Not Process Information and it is not a Computer
Robert Epstein, Aeon
This is How Fascism Comes to America
Robert Kagan, Washington Post
Lewis on Tolkien: “Only Needs A Smack or So”
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things
The Meaning of Food
Ian Sansom, Times Literary Supplement
Is It Time for a US Christian Democracy Party?
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia
The Sisters Who Treat the Untreatable
Gillian Laub and Brooke Jarvis, New York Times
Romeo and Juliet gets Local Twist in Gaza Performance
Fares Akram, Times of Israel
The Brotherhood of Moses the Black
Katie Zavadski, Daily Beast
Video: Why Poetry Matters
Dana Gioia, C-Span
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a Black Hole, Sucking the Fun out of the Universe
Sam Kriss, Wired
A Young Priest Sets the Record Straight for the Catholic Left
Fr. Kyle Doustou, Liturgy Guy
Death by GPS
Greg Milner, Ars Technica
The Little Sisters of the Poor Just Beat the Obama Administration at the Supreme Court
David French, National Review
After reading the list of demands that black students at Oberlin College issued to the Oberlin leadership awhile back, I needed a quick antidote, which I found in the Port Huron Statement of 1962. Continue Reading »
Captain America: Civil War Puts Humanity Before Spectacle
Alexi Sargeant, Acculturated
What Is the Benedict Option, and Why Might It Be Coming to Your Neighborhood?
John Burger, Aleteia
A Confession of Liberal Intolerance
Nicholas Kristoff, New York Times
The Seven Deadly Social Networks
Robinson Meyer, Atlantic
Pope to Set Up Commission to Study Possibility of Women Deacons
Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register
What the Book Really Means
Melanie Bettinelli, Wine Dark Sea
Would the World be a Better Place Without People like my Daughter?
Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail
Shakespeare as All-Too-Modern Nightmare
Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal
Gene Editing: New Technology, Old Moral Questions
Brendan P. Foht, New Atlantis
Ascension Day Couldn't Be More Timely
Peter M. Burfeind, Federalist
The Spark of Life Meets IVF (and Uncle Andrew)
Simcha Fisher, Aleteia
That Thing You Think Is an Allegory Isn't an Allegory!
Laura Miller, Slate
Poland: Europe's Forgotten Democratic Ancestor
Adriel Kasonta, National Interest
Why Aren't Other Dioceses Looking to Lincoln?
Brian Williams, Liturgy Guy
Demoncracies End When They Are Too Democratic
Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine
Reclaiming “Redneck” Urbanism: What Urban Planners Can Learn From Trailer Parks
Nolan Gray, Market Urbanism
In Defense of BYU's Honor Code
Damon Linker, The Week
All that’s Gehrish
Bruce Cole, New Criterion
In anticipation of a film adaptation by Martin Scorsese (due this fall), I read Shusaku Endo’s Silence. It’s the story of a Jesuit priest, the most polished product of the counter-reformation Church, sailing to Japan and there encountering brutal persecution.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Hedgehog
Leah Libresco, Aleteia
The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu's Treasures from Al-Quaeda
Joshua Hammer, Wall Street Journal
Corporeality Bites
Rachel Lu, National Review
China may be Readying New Crackdown on Religion
Associated Press, Crux
A Conversation with Camile Paglia
Tyler Cowen, Medium
Shakespeare Not Our Contemporary
James Bowman, New Criterion
The Smug Style in American Liberalism
Emmett Rensin, Vox
How I Discovered True Masculinity
Matt Moore, Gospel Coalition
My Unexpected Pregnancy Turned Out Better Than Everyone Expected
Heather Scott, Verily
What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Harriet Tubman
Eli Lehrer, National Review
The Medal of St. Benedict: Bracelet Edition
Richard Beck, Experimental Theology
Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the Romance of the Real
R. V. Young, Modern Age
The Baptism of Poland
Andrzej Duda, Rorate Caeli
Trump's Putin Fantasy
Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books
Why Our Evangelism Doesn't Work
Elliot Milco, Paraphasic
The Imaginary Suicide of Mrs. Darling
Elyse Byrnes, Lingua Barbara
Midnight Special's Supernatural Faith
Tim Markatos, Acculturated
400 Years After Shakespeare’s Death, He’s Still Required Reading (Even For Econ Majors)
Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight
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