The Eschatological Hope of Bearing Children
by Ian CavenyTo bear a baby is to participate in the mysteries of God. Continue Reading »
What Manner of Adult?
by Shalom CarmyOne of the few things liberal and conservative educators agree on these days is that college students are too fragile. Many of them are intellectually and emotionally unable to engage ideas uncongenial to them. Many are incapable of accepting honest assessments of their academic performance. They . . . . Continue Reading »
The Godless Nursery School
by Charlotte AllenHell hath no fury like secular parents who learn that the local church-run nursery school plans to start teaching about Jesus. Continue Reading »
Our Outdated Debates
by Jessica KeatingThanks to modern technology and transhumanism, our familiar forms of argument about abortion are becoming obsolete. Continue Reading »
Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide
by George WeigelWhen an entire continent—healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before—deliberately chooses sterility, the most basic cause for that must lie in the realm of the human spirit, in a certain souring about the very mystery of being. Continue Reading »
Don’t Ask the Kids
by Leonard SaxDistrust of authority is now the American norm. In 1964, 77 percent of Americans said that they trusted the government to do the right thing most of the time or all of the time. In 2012, only 22 percent of Americans agreed that the government could be trusted. When I was growing up in the 1960s, if . . . . Continue Reading »
Embodied Caregiving
by Erika BachiochiDependency is just as much a part of the human experience as the ability to reason. And yet, modern thought has largely neglected dependency, instead touting individual autonomy and rational self-interest. If we are to recover the human person’s proper relationship with others, we must turn to . . . . Continue Reading »
Love Is Barefoot Philosophy
by Raymond HainPlato’s Bedroom succeeds by starting outside of religion, by unsettling all of us, showing us why our erotic lives are so important and problematic, so beautiful and at the same time potentially destructive, why love and death are never far from one another. Continue Reading »
Sins of Their Fathers
by Alexi SargeantA new film, The Innocents, tells a moving story of healing and grace without downplaying the grief and trauma that preceded them. And it does this while addressing a moral blind spot of our popular culture. Continue Reading »
The Dream-Child's Progress
by David Bentley Hart“He’s dreaming now,” said Tweedledee: “and what do you think he’s dreaming about?”Alice said, “Nobody can guess that.”“Why, about you!” Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. “And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you’d be?”“Where I . . . . Continue Reading »
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