The rise of AI will generate cultural content designed not to be original or even to say anything, but to produce, like a drug, the same experience, again and again.
Even if Xi Jinping rolls back his zero-Covid policy, he won’t relent on the brutal tactics that have kept him in power. Still, China’s people give reason for hope.
In 2022, our contributors covered a lot of ground, from the synod on synodality, to the Ukraine war, to the threat of climate change. Here are some of our favorites.
We're seeing an unbinding of the deep affinity between representations of culture and Catholic culture. How did Catholicism come to be seen as the enemy?
Corporate executives are artificially hiking prices and bringing in windfall profits. It’s time to break up the consolidated economic power of our “new gilded age.”
By disregarding Qatar’s human rights abuses, FIFA has already robbed fans of the typical World Cup experience, causing us to question just what there is to root for.
John McGreevy’s book is a gripping history of the modern Catholic Church, an institution at once a stolid purveyor of tradition and an agent of revolutionary change.
When Fr. Coughlin defended Kristallnacht, he turned to the work of Irish theologian Denis Fahey. Now, conservative Catholics are returning to Fahey for inspiration.
In ‘Common Good Constitutionalism,’ Adrian Vermeule argues with straw men and cites blog posts. The book may rally his followers, but it won’t add to their number.
“Here in the overlap of the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican II and of the Cuban missile crisis, the latter has largely overshadowed the former.”
The mangling of American history has served to reinforce racism at the most fundamental level: through the stories and ideas we have passed on to our children.
In 2002, the recently deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland resigned amid a sex scandal. The end of his ecclesiastical career was the start of a spiritual journey.
From the archives: German theologian Gregory Baum reflects on the mysterious and promising early days of the Second Vatican Council, sixty years ago this month.
