Tourism makes fact seem fiction. I feel confident Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, and I believe it is a great portrait, until I get to the room... The…
First Things ↗Immediately after the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four new bishops in an Alpine meadow next to its seminary at Écône, Switzerland, it received a personal message... The…
First Things ↗What does it say about us, our nation, and our economy that over 17 million people now spend hours playing a simulator in which they do decent blue collar work?
Mere Orthodoxy ↗What is interesting about left-coded arguments for the Great Books is that they often sound exactly like right-coded arguments for the Great Books.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗She’ll never see the boy falling out of the sky,” sings Mumford & Sons in “Icarus.” As the sun was receding from view, Icarus at least realized that his... The…
First Things ↗Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in an evangelical century. Significantly more people are leaving Catholicism than converting to... The…
First Things ↗America is a Christian nation. It was at its birth, and despite increasing attacks on this reality, our Founding is unintelligible apart from the faith that animated it. Today,... The…
First Things ↗Sophocles cannot rectify the tragic suffering of his hero without imagining a savior who momentarily intervenes.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗So many streets around me are ugly. I do a lot of walking and jogging. I notice the trash, the little (or often larger) piles of dust and dirt... The…
First Things ↗The furious debate about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has revealed an unexpected fact: Many people take Homer seriously, very seriously. Modifying the canonical epic in the least detail, it appears,... The…
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