Essay

The Artificial God

December 7, 2025 Michael Hanby 9

Modern politics began in the seventeenth century with a technological ambition: to build an “artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural,” an “automaton that moves by springs and wheeles as doth […]

Columns

Faith here and now

December 3, 2025 James Kalb 4

Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It […]

Analysis

Scrolling ourselves to death

December 2, 2025 Marcus Peter 15

The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. […]

Essay

The debt we owe to the Mayflower pilgrims

November 26, 2025 Marcus Peter 8

When the Mayflower anchored off Cape Cod in November 1620, its passengers had already accomplished something remarkable. They had survived a perilous Atlantic crossing on a leaky vessel in freezing winds. Yet before they even […]

Essay

Saints and Divorce

November 25, 2025 Sandra Miesel 43

Divorced saints? How can that be? Catholics are more likely to hear edifying stories about pious wives like St. Catherine of Genoa or Elizabeth Canori-Mora, who stayed with wicked husbands until they prayed their erring […]