Books for Christmas
by George WeigelGeorge Weigel offers book suggestions for all the readers on your Christmas gift list. Continue Reading »
Work Is a Four-Letter Word
by Eve TushnetKayla Rae Whitaker’s debut novel about two cartoonists, The Animators, asks whether the overexamined life is worth living. Continue Reading »
“You Have to Decide.”
by George WeigelHelping his young friends to see the good and choose it as a matter of habit—growth in virtue—was Karol Wojtyła's pastoral method. Continue Reading »
Rambling Shambling Brian Doyle
by Matthew HennesseyIf Brian Doyle's style was unconventional, it was also unique and it was also good, which is the main thing. Continue Reading »
Exit Neoliberalism
by Jude RussoIn Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West, social leftism, direct democracy, and financial capital are victorious over the dark forces of nationalism and economic-political inequality. Continue Reading »
The Persistence of Print
by Mark BauerleinRecent evidence suggests print reading is on the rise, while e-book sales are dropping. Continue Reading »
A Memoir I Never Expected to Write
by George WeigelGeorge Weigel's Lessons in Hope is full of stories that together present a deeply etched portrait of Pope John Paul II. Continue Reading »
The Parson and the Talmud
by Junior FellowsThe junior fellows reflect on George Herbert's prose and the meaning of the term “talmudic.” Continue Reading »
From a Vanished Library
by David Bentley HartThe library in question is not the Great Library of Alexandria, but it is every bit as much a thing of the past, existing now as scarcely a memory—almost legendary, positively Edenic. I think it had been my ambition throughout much of my life to accumulate a collection of books in the ideal, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Rise of Dystopian Nonfiction
by K. E. ColombiniFour books on how to survive, and eventually turn the tide on, today’s culture. Continue Reading »
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