Article A Happy Contrarian A new collection of interviews with René Girard offers insight into the complexity of his ideas and the process through which he came to them.By Costica BradatanFebruary 25, 2021 Philosophy Nonfiction
Article Excavating the Future Mike Davis has always been a student of the future. 2020 was the year his predictions came true.By John ThomasonFebruary 25, 2021 Books Coronavirus
Article Books in Brief This month, our editors are reading about building a society that correctly values labor and human dignity, and about the Catholicism of Joe Biden.By The EditorsFebruary 24, 2021 Books in Brief Nonfiction
Article February Bookmarks Finding the right words for an experience allows a memoirist to win a fragile victory over it.By Anthony DomesticoFebruary 23, 2021 Nonfiction Books
Article The Pascal of the North A philosopher’s lifelong meditation on faithBy Gordon MarinoFebruary 14, 2021 Philosophy Theology Books
Article ‘The Miracle of Everything’ Living with a rare heart condition led Gabriel Brownstein to chart the advances in coronary medicine over the centuries.By Rand Richards CooperFebruary 12, 2021 Science Nonfiction Technology Health Care
PoliticsAmerican Arsenal America’s “gun problem” is not a problem so much as a condition of life—and in its apparent permanence, a dangerously debilitating one.By Dominic PreziosiFebruary 9, 2021
ReligionAll Will Be Well When facing the problem of evil, we must start where we are: in the thick of it.By Denys TurnerJanuary 31, 2021
CultureGoing to Extremes What does it mean to take empathy seriously?By John Paul RollertFebruary 8, 2021
BooksOn Papal Populism Pope Francis’s new book offers a vision for a politics rooted in solidarity.By Austen IvereighFebruary 7, 2021
CollectionsLenten Reflections Reflections and poems to offer spiritual guidance during this period of national and theological mourningBy The EditorsFebruary 23, 2021