"The blessedness of the night is something I now try to embrace. When I probe the darkness, I usually find God more present than I’d realized."

Three writers—a Jewish theologian, a legal scholar and intellectual historian, and a Catholic philosopher of religion—reflect on Omri Boehm’s call for a "radical universalism."

"To be well known, even in as small a pond as the intellectual life, can be gratifying. Like most other pleasures, however, it also has its problems."

The memory of almost being hanged by Trump supporters doesn’t appear to have clarified Mike Pence’s conscience.

In 'Radical Universalism,' Omri Boehm fails to explain why we should listen to Kant instead of Hegel and Marx.

Omri Boehm’s politics suffer from an excess of certitude and righteousness, a deficit of lament, and a proclivity for and ease with lethal violence.

In his biography of W. H. Auden, Peter Ackroyd tracks the constant tension between public and private life that the poet navigated.

"Knowing // it is love that drives the sun, the moon and all the stars, I went / down to the inner room, / laid out the notebook, called on the Spirit"

"The svelte warm-blooded chipmunk / crouched in curvaceous repose to sun / himself in the niche atop our rock wall"

"Seigniorial she rises, claps sand, strides over, / then bends and sweeps up the pale blue baby / and teaches it its first world."

Sardinian arist Pinuccio Sciola built a life on the claim that stones can sing. Ten years after his death, visitors to his stone garden can listen for themselves.

The West still pictures India as rooted in Gandhian tradition. But it is Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's radical nationalism that drives Indian politics today.

J. D. Vance’s ‘Communion’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ are two sequels to splashy, confessional memoirs by millennial authors. Only one of them is fun to read.

Jim Thompson, the most "titillatingly depraved crime novelist of the twentieth century," penned iconic psychopathic protagonists and redefined the genre of noir.

Physician-assisted suicide is not harmless or selfless: it is a rejection of the inherent dignity of the elderly and the vulnerable.

The United States has made it much easier for the merely rich to become stratospherically wealthy. It's long past time to reverse course.

The Declaration’s grievances offer a portrait of political domination, teaching us what it feels like to be subjects rather than citizens. Can we recognize the predicament it describes?

The work of French Jesuit Michel de Certeau attempted to discern what lay beyond and beneath the glamor of postwar materialism.