It’s easy to overlook the 1951 novel Dan England and the Noonday Devil. Published in the long shadow cast by his first and most famous 1928 novel, Mr. Blue, Myles Connelly’s third and personal favorite […]

On June 19th, the Church celebrates the founder of a religious community that may not be very well known in the United States. St Romuald (c. 951–June 19, 1027) was the founder of the Camaldolese. […]

I recently read Bishop Joseph Strickland’s May 26th essay critiquing Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (MH), and I wanted to comment on it by drawing insights from the encyclical itself. One of the more surprising criticisms […]

One of the striking lessons of the past century is that movements seeking to transform society eventually turn their attention to education. Political victories can be reversed, laws repealed, elections lost. But shape the imagination […]

The Forgotten Foundations of Constitutional Law (Public Discourse): “Long before the separation of powers and judicial review were given written form, Greek philosophy, Roman law, Christian theology, and the medieval doctrine of paired jurisdictions laid […]

Modern life has all but quenched man’s heroic spirit, smothering it with lame distractions, from fantasy sports to petty internet debates, or killing it with evils like pornography. But men are called to so much […]