A Contemporary Lesson
August 7, 2019
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more humane direction during...
George Weigel
Lessons in Virtue From Apollo 11
July 31, 2019
Fifty years ago this week, the crew of Apollo 11, the world’s latest heroes, were doing decidedly unheroic things: napping,...
The New ‘Nationalism’
July 24, 2019
Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a lot of debate...
The Quiet Hours of Leonid Brezhnev
July 17, 2019
On first meeting Dr. Andrzej Grajewski, you probably wouldn’t guess that this mild-mannered Polish historian is one of the world’s...
Religious Icons on Ammunition Boxes
July 3, 2019
Throughout the 20th century — the greatest period of martyrdom in history — persecuted Christians used the dross of this...
The Summer Reading List
June 26, 2019
Continuing a venerable tradition, I offer the following for your canicular reading pleasure: John Hay spent decades at the center...
Whose Republic? Which ‘Liberalism’?
June 19, 2019
Extra credit question: Name the author of this admonition – “Seeds of dissolution were already present in the ancient heritage...
‘High Noon’ in Poland, Thirty Years Later
June 12, 2019
THIRTY YEARS AGO last week, Poland began to self-liberate from communism through the first semi-free elections held behind the iron...
Restoring Episcopal Credibility
June 5, 2019
POPE FRANCIS’S recent motu proprio on sexual abuse, “Vos estis lux mundi” [You Are the Light of the World], was...
The Catholic Difference: Biden, Bernardin and Today
May 29, 2019
Given the seriousness with which the post-Watergate Washington Post takes itself, it seems unlikely that its editors strive for hilarity...