September 2026

"You’d take our ways of life apart / and reconstruct them into something better."

"Every now and then, / I know what the psalmist meant / fall into a hole in myself"

The Earth Liberation Front thought it could inspire an eco-revolution without the hard work of organizing. What can its failures teach us today?

Jonathan Sheehan's history of sacrifice explores how people's beliefs about sacrifice in the past have been reappropriated today.

The Catholic Church is now the default option for those seeking a Christianity capable of guiding a different kind of politics.

In the wake of Trumpian destruction, Pope Leo's encyclical offers a model for rebuilding and repair.

Summoning more willpower couldn't keep Meghan O'Gieblyn sober. But perhaps the pursuit of beauty, inspired by Irish Murdoch and Simone Weil, could.

Two recent histories of capitalism show its rapacious, violent appetite. How might Catholics contribute to a politics of repair?

Stanford alumnus Theo Baker's book charts the university's depressing slide into a glorified tech-industry career fair.