Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Comb of Leaves
Enough, I am to crumble to the floor;But all around me are perceptive eyes.I feel like going…
Imprudent Expertise
Human beings have always yearned to know the future, and there have always been other human beings…
Christian Nation, Yes and No
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States by andrew l. whitehead and samuel…
Seeds
Tiny packets of life, these seeds. They seeminvisible in our busy days, and, tossedby shoes, or cracked…
Russian Purgatory
The Russian soul. The phrase serves as shorthand for Russia’s national character, after the manner of American…
Young Pius
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europeby david…
The Final Enemy
Human mortality has always fascinated the greatest creative minds—from Homer declaiming on the slayings of Patroclus and…
Gelded Critics of Capitalism
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernityby eugene mccarraher belknap, 816 pages, $39.95…
The Fallen Men of Film Noir
In the mid-1940s, Hollywood began to make a new kind of crime film. Combining sex and violence,…
Letters
Fascism In “Professors as Propagandists” (April), Alexander Riley systematically misrepresents my 2018 book, How Fascism Works. If…
The Idea of the Catholic School
One needn’t be a Hegelian to think that ideas have consequences. We tend to focus on the…
Anti-Religious Studies
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Mark Pulliam…
My Pope
It often seems to me that conservative-tending millennial Catholics are converts, as a rule—a rule to which…
Where Two or Three Are Gathered
Most priests and ministers dread having to perform the funeral rites of their parents. nI first had…
Joseph Ratzinger, Theological Reformer
As he turned 93 on April 16, Joseph Ratzinger remained one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented…
