For better or for worse, universities are shapers of culture, not the only ones, of course, but decisive ones. The reason for this isn’t mysterious. Most of our cultural elites – the people in the […]
Lent is a time of retreat and reflection. That can mean very different things for different people at different times in their lives. But it always means stepping back from daily preoccupations and looking at […]
The rise of discontent in American public life is continually before our eyes. The public sense of fracturing can be witnessed in a resurgence of calls for populism, whether it be from the left, or […]
Recently I’ve been complaining about technocratic society. I’ve also emphasized how deeply rooted its problems are. But if I’m right on the latter point, what good does complaining do? Can we really repeal the modern […]
Dr. Gerard Verschuuren is an expert in the fields of biology, human genetics, and the philosophy of science. He was born in 1946 in the Netherlands, and has studied and worked at universities in Europe […]
Nearly two decades ago, in another country, and on the eve of a prominent and much-watched episcopal appointment, I wrote a lengthy wish-list (for a small upstart Catholic journal that seems to have disappeared) outlining […]
The sheer ferocity of contemporary politics suggests that, for many people, it’s their real religion. […]
W. L. Patenaude’s debut science-fiction novel features a richly imagined fictional world in which the Gospel of Christ goes to the farthest frontiers of space. […]
“As I explain in several essays in the book,” says George Weigel about The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times, “our politics are […]
Is there anything new under the sun? Or is there anything even real? What if the Evangelists for the incarnate Son of God are actually […]
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