Paul Baumann

Every few months, some self-styled orthodox Catholic declares the exhaustion of liberal Catholicism. Rarely has a death notice been written so often for a corpse that stubbornly refuses to be interred.

To ignore the Catholic dimensions of 'The Great Gatsby,' as so much criticism does, diminishes its uncanny power.

As Sam Tanenhaus shows in his new biography, William F. Buckley was essentially a performer, “a debater, not a thinker.”

Whittaker Chambers’s critique of Ayn Rand was a remarkable forewarning about the crude materialistic worldview we now see in the White House.

Francis's critics are wrong to fear a return to the upheavals of the postconciliar period. In the Church, arguments are a sign of life.

"My wife and I tend to avoid thinking about such things, naïvely assuming that decrepitude and disability will somehow pass us by."