Housman was a singular creature, a noble-minded nihilist of intense feeling.

Nogueira stands among that now lost class of great European statesmen.

Marked by historical events of such magnitude as the two world wars, Tolkien and other Christian intellectuals of his day grappled with profound questions about the fate of the world.

The Old and New Left share the same essential disdain for national, cultural, religious, and civilizational differences.

Social eating, with implicit rules for the sake of harmony, creates a tender window to the unique human person.

The Bible reminds us that when the storm comes—and inevitably it will—we can look into the waves and the darkness, or we can look to Christ. 

The greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century drew on the deep riches of the liturgy to speak to the secular age.

Reports of a Christian satyr coming to St. Anthony for guidance tell us something about Halloween—about the ‘fairy-folk’ and those fiends whose form may yet be redeemed.

While we need not succumb to Adorno’s demoralizing miserabilism, we might agree with him that modern life is profoundly damaged in ways both subtle and overt.

University campuses are merely magnifying glasses of ongoing, wider societal dilemmas.

Malory, like Galahad, understands an important truth: that the ultimate end of the political common good is the spiritual common good.

Media-friendly illegal immigrants [are] quick to make a practice of blaming France and the French should anything unfortunate befall them. …. One thinks of burglars who sue a landlord because they break a leg in his poorly lit stairwell.