November 2019

Two films about two supremely gifted singers explore how fate deals out both the plot of one’s life and the temperament with which we negotiate it.

For Patti Smith, turbulence of spirit is the mark of a great artist. It is also related to hope and faith because, ultimately, it leads to charity.

Fr. Luigi Giussani’s experience as a student and teacher made him especially attuned to the rhetorical challenge of helping young people mature in faith and reason.

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez wanted to be known more for his journalistic prose than his novels. A new collection reveals the flaws of that desire.

Public goods need and deserve public protection and support. Doesn’t this mean, at a minimum, making sure that teachers earn enough to pay the rent?

Thousands of migrants are now camping along the border in Ciudad Juárez, enduring squalid conditions as they await responses from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

In this moment, where we find ourselves pushed relentlessly toward “either/or” positions, an 1890 encyclical by Leo XIII offers a helpful way of framing nationalism.

Famed documentarian Ken Burns traces the long and complex history of country music, revealing old American tensions between personal and collective freedom.