As ‘The League’ Begins Its Centennial Season…
September 4, 2019
By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died this past April 29, was undersized...
George Weigel
Getting Beyond Darwin
August 21, 2019
Bishop Robert Barron and others working hard to evangelize the “Nones” — young adults without religious conviction — tell us...
Heroism and Priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
August 14, 2019
In late June, I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few miles from downtown...
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...
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...