Columns
The ABC of Liberal Failure
Patrick J. Deneen’s much-discussed book rightly points out that liberalism comes down to an individualism and subjectivism that divorce us from nature and make each of […]
Rod Dreher
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St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican II, and the “Benedict Option”
We should all adopt some sort of interior ‘Benedict Option’, to ensure our souls are not conformed to this age, to keep our thoughts and […]
News Briefs
Book Review: Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”
Vancouver, Canada, May 14, 2018 / 06:01 am (CNA).- The meteoric rise of Jordan B. Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has resulted in a popular book, 12 Rules for Life, published by Random House Canada in January. Peterson… […]
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A pox on both the racist Right and the violent antifa Left
The two movements are lawless, bullying, violent, hateful, anarchist, destructive, ideologically-insane sides of the same secular, godless coin. […]
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Why mysticism is not an “Option”
“Only someone who has broken out of the restricted horizon of ideology can see clearly what has been left behind. And only those who have fully contemplated the abyss can be sure of having attained […]
Columns
The Benedict Compulsion
The ”Benedict Option” now receiving so much attention is rather different from anything pursued by Benedict of Nursia. Even so, there’s a family resemblance, since both have to do with closeness to God and a […]
Features
An evening with a monk of Norcia and the author of “The Benedict Option”
During his recent talk in Dallas at a dinner for the Benedictine monks of Norcia, Italy, Rod Dreher, author of the much-debated book The Benedict Option, said, I believe with all my heart that the […]
The Dispatch
“The Benedict Option” offers realistic response to contemporary barbarism
If, by now, you haven’t heard of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, then you likely are living the Benedict Option-hermit phase. To say that the book has […]
Books
Christian Politics Is the Benedict Option Now
Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of reviews and essays—positive, critical, and mixed—of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (Sentinel, 2017). Read the first essay here. With the publication of La Primauté du spirituel, […]
Books
Reading Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option with MacIntyre and Schmemann
Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of reviews and essays—positive, critical, and mixed—of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (Sentinel, 2017). After having written something in 2015 about Rod Dreher’s project of marketing MacIntyre’s […]