Might Does Not Always Make Right
February 27, 2026
The “Melian Dialogue,” from Thucydides’ classic “History of the Peloponnesian War,” is the foundational text of the Realist school of...
George Weigel
Cardinal Dolan: By No Means Finished
February 18, 2026
Although he is no longer the archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, in good health and full of energy,...
P.D. James and Designer Dog Parkas
February 11, 2026
P.D. James’ detective novels, featuring Inspector Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, are every bit as gripping as those penned...
Fact-Checking The New Yorker
February 4, 2026
Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American journals, writers were...
The Evangelist in Stanley Prison
January 28, 2026
In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man listens more willingly...
Semiquincentennial Prep With HBO
January 21, 2026
Having recently lamented in this space that book reading is on life support in these United States, I find myself...
Secularism, Security, & ‘Civilizational Erasure’
January 14, 2026
Unless and until a critical mass of Europeans recognizes that woke secularism cannot provide a firm cultural foundation for either...
German Bishops, Over the Cliff
January 7, 2026
On Oct. 30, the German bishops’ conference announced the publication of a text by the bishops’ Commission on Schools and...
Rome and the Church in the U.S.
December 17, 2025
Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who confirmed my father, was a pugnacious Irishman with a taste for shocking people...
Books to Read This Christmas
December 10, 2025
Here are 11 suggestions of books to consider gifting that entertain, inform, and open new horizons of understanding.