The rise of AI will generate cultural content designed not to be original or even to say anything, but to produce, like a drug, the same experience, again and again.
In 2022, our contributors covered a lot of ground, from the synod on synodality, to the Ukraine war, to the threat of climate change. Here are some of our favorites.
It’s been 50 years since the deaths of Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. These two complex icons have been transformed into saints in the church of baseball.
We're seeing an unbinding of the deep affinity between representations of culture and Catholic culture. How did Catholicism come to be seen as the enemy?
An essential new memoir conveys the fundamental emotions behind child migration—love and longing, loss and trauma—from the perspective of a young Salvadoran boy.