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A selection of recent articles on this topic
First Things, the Live Option
Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go “all-in” for…
Shūsaku Endō’s Swamp
Silence, the haunting 1966 Shūsaku Endō novel of faith, apostasy, and martyrdom in seventeenth-century Japan, tells the…
A Christmas Eve Carol
When did I first become aware of Jesus Christ? Every idea has its own history. What was…
Advent in the Deathworks
Ryszard Legutko observes in The Demon in Democracy that the cultured despisers of religion will not rest…
The Ingredients of Christian Witness
Two oz. scotch (cheap stuff will do just fine). 1 oz. tawny port. A handful of namkeen.…
Suffering and Silence
I hope that Martin Scorcese’s Silence, premiering this week, will accurately capture the genius of Shusako Endo’s…
Why are Catholic Academics Supporting the Four Cardinals?
On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a score of Catholic academics and pastors—of whom I am…
The Persecution of Professor Esolen
Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher education in the United…
How I Changed My Mind About Pope Francis
Anyone who has stumbled across a long-forgotten diary will understand the embarrassment a journalist feels when he…
Books for Christmas 2016
Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as…
Transgender Conformity
Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that…
Vulgar Deconstruction
Back in the 1970s, when the humanities still set the intellectual tone for the college campus, it…
Leonard Cohen, Religious Alchemist
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian, but he was the poet laureate of another nation: a nation of…
A Childhood Gone to the Dogs
Not too long ago, a business trip took me to the Southern California neighborhood in which I…
Gnostic Longings
Some years ago, an older friend turned fifty and his body suddenly fell apart. He had several…
