Podcast

When the Good Book Isn’t a Book

It’s long been a truism that Catholics don’t actually read the Bible — at least not as much or in the same way as their Protestant brethren. But they still encounter it.

What Novels Do

Edwin Frank explains why the twentieth-century novel has the ‘power to breach.’

Aging in America

James Chappel discusses the rise of one political issues Americans agree on: the right to a dignified and secure old age.

Memory Matters

Intellectual historian and political theorist Mark Lilla explains why humans have always longed to forget inconvenient and uncomfortable truths.
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