July 2021

The Church helps form consciences, and laypeople are asked to use them to discern what is possible and prudent in political life.

A new book aims to upend the axiom that limiting the scope of market activity necessarily constricts freedom.

Fr. Stan Swamy dedicated his life to serving the poor in India, fighting for the rights of the most marginalized members of society.

With both the highly anticipated arrival of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography and what’s transpired since, it’s harder to know what to think—about either subject.

Pairing the paintings of Chaïm Soutine and Willem de Kooning offers viewers a luminous vision of life outside time.

The works of Greg Gerke and Rachel Eisendrath remind us why we come to art: to be changed, to find beauty, and to interpret our own lives.

The Church should respond to the horror of unmarked graves in Canadian residential schools with apologies, not evasions.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel paints a complicated portrait of a narrator burdened by regrets and lost opportunities.

Where Christians can agree with the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, and where they can’t.