Mark Roche’s book is relevant to the discussion of the woes of Catholic higher education over the past 50 years, but it has ambitions beyond this discussion
Luke Timothy Johnson reviews books on (perhaps) the world's oldest church, evolution and the Bible, the fear of God, and the relations between different monotheisms
‘America’s Dream Palace’ describes the collaboration between U.S. policymakers largely ignorant of the Middle East and the entities to which they turned for advice
For Pankaj Mishra, a “nativist radical right” and “radical Islamism” have emerged against a common backdrop of economic decline and social fragmentation
Like nearly every historian of American Catholicism in recent decades, Kevin Starr wanted to demonstrate the centrality of Catholics to the American history
A pair of novels, a collection of essays, an analysis of economics and Christian desire, mystical short stories, and a compendium of works on the undead
Future Humans takes a sober look at the scientific evidence supporting the claim that humans are continuously evolving and might evolve into a different species.
What standards should we use to judge figures of the past? No one evokes this question more acutely than Pope Pius XII. Two books assess his actions in World War II.
The opaque means by which the wealthy preserve their luxury at our expense is the subject of Brooke Harrington’s new book. What do wealth managers do exactly?
This is the novel you get when you cross the demonical complexities of Poe with the malignant banalities of Kafka, but De Maria has added a menacing ingredient.
