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Lethally Stupid
Pete Hegseth won’t be around forever—but unless change comes soon, we’ll be paying for his mistakes for years to come.
Stone Music
Sardinian arist Pinuccio Sciola built a life on the claim that stones can sing. Ten years after his death, visitors to his stone garden can listen for themselves.
The Objects We Call Bibles
What happens when sacred scripture becomes an accessory to violence? And how can we interrupt that process?
Learning from Ross Douthat
Pope FrancisPope Leo XIVReligion
As a New York Times columnist, Ross Douthat's commentary on the Church was defined by a central antagonist: Pope Francis.
Bloody Certitudes
War and PeacePhilosophyNonfiction
Omri Boehm’s politics suffer from an excess of certitude and righteousness, a deficit of lament, and a proclivity for and ease with lethal violence.
Conquering Death
TheologyHistoryDeath and Dying
"When we wonder why death takes a life too soon, we bring forth a more wondrous puzzle: Why are there lives to be taken at all?"
Dignity Denied
Donald TrumpPope Leo XIVReligionPolitics
Catholic postliberals keen to dismiss dignity as an empty category should consult the Church's Magisterium—and listen to the cries of the vulnerable.
Whose German Idealism?
PhilosophyPoliticsReligion
In 'Radical Universalism,' Omri Boehm fails to explain why we should listen to Kant instead of Hegel and Marx.
A Terrible Thing to Ask
Death and DyingReligionTheologyPolitics
Church teaching on suicide tells us what we must not do. But it doesn’t give us anything helpful to say to those facing intolerable suffering.
Close to the Bone
BooksDeath and DyingSecularism and Modernity
Jim Thompson, the most "titillatingly depraved crime novelist of the twentieth century," penned iconic psychopathic protagonists and redefined the genre of noir.
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What’s in the Cards?
ArtsCultureReligion
A new exhibit at the Morgan Museum and Library traces tarot's transformation from a courtly card game in fifteenth-century Milan into a map of the modern subconscious.
Ariana Moira
An Abrahamic Universalism?
PhilosophySocial JusticeTheology
Omri Boehm looks to Abraham for biblical evidence of philosophical universalism. His reconstruction is speculative, at best.
Shai Held
Fatiguing Us into Compliance
PoliticsAmerica 250Donald Trump
The Declaration’s grievances offer a portrait of political domination, teaching us what it feels like to be subjects rather than citizens. Can we recognize the predicament it describes?
Charlie Tyson

Philosophy

A 'Radical Universalism'?
Self-Evident Truths?
Whose German Idealism?
Bloody Certitudes

Pope Leo XIV

Catholic Social Teaching Is Having a Moment
Dignity Denied
Learning from Ross Douthat
Mitre Night on the South Side

Artificial Intelligence

Catholic Social Teaching Is Having a Moment
Reading ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
Flourishing Through Limits
Us vs. the Robots

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Thomas Merton on the Psalms as Poetry (1953)
Ernesto Cardenal on Poetry and Revolution (1974)
Ernest Brennecke Jr. on a Century of Beethoven (1927)