St. Joseph: Father, Protector, and Guide

by Mark Bauerlein

Elizabeth Lev joins the podcast to discuss her recent book, The Silent Knight: A History of St. Joseph as Depicted in Art. Continue Reading »

23 Jun 2022

The Riches of Rock Art

by John Wilson

A recent book on the history of Native American rock art invites readers to experience both a profound sense of otherness and a fundamental human bond, neither one cancelling out the other. Continue Reading »

6 May 2022

Artists and Abortion

by Jonathon Van Maren

We desperately need more artists like William Kurelek to expose the carnage beneath the surface of our society, and to begin a conversation on why it must end. Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2022

Praying with Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis

by Robert P. Imbelli

In the Missa Solemnis, Beethoven’s titanic subjectivity seems chastened by suffering and transformed by his engagement with the graced objectivity of liturgical text and tradition. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2022

Lent, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the Liberating Lightness of Truth

by George Weigel

As the Church enters Lent 2022, it is well to reflect on and pray over the Catholic understanding that doctrine is light, powerful, and liberating, which some parts of the world Church seem to have forgotten. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2022

The Man Who Painted the Reformation

by Jane Coombs

As humanists sought the truth by mastering ancient languages, and reformers by printing the Gospels in vernacular ones, Holbein pursued the truth by recording his subjects—both Protestants and Catholics—in honest, startling detail. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2022

Great Art Can Be Propaganda

by Kyle Smith

Political messaging can make for bad art—but also for masterpieces. Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2022

Loving and Hating the Middle Ages

by John Duggan

Modern people, despite being drawn to medieval aesthetics and artificats, cannot seem to bear to examine what those artifacts are modeled on: the intelligible order glimpsed by the eye of faith. Continue Reading »

24 Jan 2022

Van Gogh’s God

by Peter J. Leithart

Van Gogh didn’t reject the supernatural, but naturalized it. What terror there is in his paintings is the sublime terror evoked by the uncanny beauty of what Scripture identifies as the glory of God. Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2022

Peter Bogdanovich, the Man Who Knew Too Much

by Peter Tonguette

Throughout his career, Bogdanovich stood apart from his New Hollywood peers, presenting a far milder view of human nature untainted by cynicism. Continue Reading »

12 Jan 2022