Are Jihadis “Losers”?
August 2, 2017
WHEN I FIRST visited Israel in 1988, my friend, Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was...
George Weigel
The Cooler Cold War
July 26, 2017
THE CLAIM THAT “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for relations with Russia...
Is The Church Being Awkward? Or Wise?
July 19, 2017
Asked to name books that gave me the greatest intellectual jolt in recent decades, I’d quickly cite two.
Fifty Years of Friendship With Cardinal Pell
July 12, 2017
Precisely 50 years ago this month, a tall, gangly Aussie named George Pell entered my life. By the end of...
Summer Reading in the Bechtel Tradition
June 28, 2017
I RECENTLY MET the good people of St. Benedict Elementary School in South Natick, Mass., which offers classical Catholic education...
Way Beyond the ‘New Atheist’ Nonsense
June 14, 2017
Given the intellectual flimsiness of their work, it’s best to look for cultural causes to explain the “New Atheists” popularity....
Thoughts on the Western Wall, 50 Years Later
June 7, 2017
PHOTOGRAPHS CAN capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well as pictorially. The...
Interreligious Dialogue With Edge and Purpose
May 31, 2017
THE EVENING OF Sept. 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having dinner in Cracow...
Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide
May 24, 2017
TEN YEARS AGO, after my meditation on Europe, “The Cube and the Cathedral,” had appeared in several languages, I was...
A Hillarian Lesson for Church Leaders
May 18, 2017
PERHAPS IT WAS being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it was my guardian...