Cabrini’s Empire of Hope

by Jacob Adams

Mother Cabrini's mission was to give people hope through charity for the body and the soul.  Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2024

Europe Has Failed Armenia

by Antonia Arslan

European hypocrisy has destroyed Nagorno-Karabakh. Continue Reading »

21 Nov 2023

Rule of the Competent

by Mark Bauerlein

James Hankins joins the podcast to discuss his new book Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena. Continue Reading »

18 Sep 2023

A Forgotten Catholic Novelist

by Stephen Schmalhofer

Francis Marion Crawford was a very important novelist in his own day, and yet today few know his name. It is worthwhile revisiting his works. Continue Reading »

9 May 2023

Modernity in the High Mugello

by M. D. Aeschliman

The remote Tuscan-Romagnolan mountains evince a world isolated from modernity, though that solitude likely won't last long.  Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2022

The Death and Life of Italian Families

by Virginia Coda Nunziante

Italy, once the country of large families with many children, is today a country of the elderly. Twenty-three percent of the Italian population is over the age of sixty-five, and the mean age of Italian citizens is above forty-four. At the end of the nineteenth century, the fertility rate per woman . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2022

Algis Valiunas on Leopardi

by R. R. Reno

Algis Valiunas joins the podcast to discuss the brilliant and short life of Giacomo Leopardi, a poet still widely ignored in English-speaking circles. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2022

Nihilism for the Ironhearted

by Algis Valiunas

When a man proclaims nature malignant in all its parts and professes to hate life itself, one’s first suspicion is that something is profoundly wrong with him. The man’s grievance against creation must be the effect of some personal deficiency in body or soul or both, rather than a sound . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022

The Witness of the Mafia Martyrs

by Raymond J. de Souza

Together the mafia martyrs lived out the true mission of baptism and confirmation; they honored their sacraments, rather than corrupting them. Continue Reading »

29 Oct 2021

All Will Be Well

by Larry Smith

Love surrounds us, among friends and in families, and in countless kindnesses. Continue Reading »

15 May 2020