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Books for Christmas—2024
A friend told me recently that bookstores were making something of a comeback. I hope that’s true,…
G. K. Chesterton on Life Stories
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Brady Stiller joins in to…
The Life of a Young Saint
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Christine M. Wohar joins in…
Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Charles Taylor joins in to…
Liberalism and Civic Virtue
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. F. H. Buckley joins in…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #11
As Synod-2024 limps toward the finish line, with everyone experiencing Synod Exhaustion Syndrome—the exceptions being the indefatigable…
Joker: Folie à Deux and the Anxiety of Authenticity
The modern emphasis on individual identity hinges on the concept of authenticity. Today, we see people attempt…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #9
The Synod and the War Against Veritatis Splendor by George Weigel Although the progressive theologians’ guild imagines…
One Cheer for Hollywood
Back in the misty recesses of time—2020—the Los Angeles Times announced that newly-elected President Biden would remake…
Has Houellebecq Found a Happy Ending?
Annihilation: A Novel by michel houellebecq translated by shaun whiteside farrar, straus and giroux, 540 pages, $30…
Calling All Aspiring Classical Teachers
In 1989, Teach for America (TFA) started with a winning idea: recruit elite college seniors to teach…
German “Synodality” and the World Church
In a recent interview with The Pillar, Dr. Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #1
Letters from the Synod began in 2015 at the request of Cardinal George Pell, then the Prefect…
The Orwellian Evolution of Banned Books Week
This week is “Banned Books Week,” a fact being advertised at libraries and booksellers across the country.…
Elizabeth Inchbald, Inventor of the Catholic Novel
While the “Catholic novel” is a recognized subgenre—associated above all, in the twentieth century, with Evelyn Waugh…
