Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Fifty Years of Friendship with Cardinal Pell
Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character:…
The Case Against Cardinal Pell
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At the Table
Christians go to church to eat and drink. This is nothing new. From the beginning to the…
Harvard’s First Light
During seven years of graduate study at Harvard University, I frequently passed through Johnson Gate into Harvard…
A Higher Education
The call came yesterday. We all get them. On the other end of the line was the…
What’s Love Got to Do with Transhumanism?
Nothing you can make that can’t be made. No one you can save that can’t be saved.…
Our Outdated Debates
Could the intensity of America’s abortion debate be like the last burst of light from a dying…
Protecting the Public Square
When the First Things junior fellowship brought me to New York City last summer, Jane Jacobs was…
Opening Up the World
I am in Portsmouth, Rhode Island this weekend, attending “Being Human: Christian Perspectives on the Human Person,” an…
Open Marriages, Closed Hearts
A recent article in the New York Times Magazine asked, “Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?”…
A Report from Morningside
I just wrapped up my undergraduate career at Columbia University. It was a strange time to be…
In Defense of Educational Administrators
The ongoing campus chaos in the United States has elicited both cries of despair over the behavior…
Reflections on Being the Dumbest Man in the Room
Last week I had the pleasure of attending a conference at Princeton University celebrating the life and…
A Restless Mind, In Search of Truth
The news came as a shock, but turned into an outpouring of love and affection, reminiscences and…
The Art of Verbal Jousting
In the past few weeks, things blew up at Duke Divinity School. Paul Griffiths launched a salvo…
