September 2026

Patrick Deneen's 'American Odyssey' reads Homer instrumentally, transforming a rich epic into a neat model for social conservatism.

The USCCB has largely risen to the occasion in condemning MAGA nativism. We hope voters will remove it from power with all due haste.

"I wanted to give / Every flower your name; / But they already had it."

Annie Dillard reminds us that the imagination, properly wed to reason, can be transfigurative and redeeming.

Lawrence Joseph's poetry gives form to a beauty that is still somehow possible in our precise and horrible moment.

J. D. Vance seems not to understand that, for Christians, the expectation of the end only deepens our obligations to the vulnerable.

How will the Vatican engage with an American political theology that unfolds under the sign of the apocalypse?

Our dysfunctional Constitution has helped save us from Donald Trump.

"I started calling life with a terminal cancer patient 'the Sword of Damocles Life.' My wife and I lived under a constant threat, but not under constant assault."