I believe we live more meaningful lives here than we could in North America. The ease of 24-hour drive-thru society and the comfort of higher wages and cheaper consumer goods are never going to be enough to stave off the West’s existential malaise. Continue Reading »
This annual column on Christmas gift books that will inspire, entertain, inform, or all of the above includes oldies-but-still-goodies as well as newer releases. Continue Reading »
Like the denizens of the Divine Comedy, Jon Fosse’s characters are for the most part fixed in continuations of their erstwhile, earthly habits. Continue Reading »
The modern Anglican Church is called to be a repenting church. Continue Reading »
Kent Heckenlively joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Diversity Con. Continue Reading »
Opponents of euthanasia need to be vigilant about electing lawmakers at the local but especially federal level who understand that intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong. Continue Reading »
Bella Health and Wellness v. Weiser, the latest case at the forefront of the fight for life and faith in Colorado, may not be getting as much media attention as Masterpiece Cakeshop or 303 Creative, but it should. Continue Reading »
I very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,” October 2023), but I’m afraid he has made an error of fact about Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia. Rosen says the protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov, “swallows poison and then . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview given to The Tablet in 1989, two years before he died, Graham Greene described himself as “a Catholic agnostic” and added that there were two things keeping him from losing his faith altogether. The first was the moment in the Fourth Gospel when Peter and John ran to . . . . Continue Reading »
So-called “window bills,” which eliminate statutes of limitations on child sexual abuse claims for periods of two or three years, have been enacted in more than seventeen states. Their primary justification—the thesis that victims of child sexual abuse are psychologically constrained from . . . . Continue Reading »
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