Recently, I was asked by a popular financial media group to offer commentary on whether emotional appeals in car insurance advertising were misleading. I responded that while I didn’t necessarily think they were deceptive, I […]
Rhonda Franklin Ortiz, in her illuminating CWR essay “Popular fiction and the Catholic Literary Renaissance” (April 25, 2021), describes how well-crafted popular/genre fiction can be a worthy endeavor for Catholic authors and worthy reads for […]
Helen Andrews is an Eastern Orthodox writer who serves as senior editor at The American Conservative and author of the new book Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster (January 2021). Holding a B.A. […]
Of late, an increasing number of authors and filmmakers have this in common: their stories derive from worldviews that hold little understanding or appreciation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and all that the Church […]
A couple of months ago I reviewed R.R. Reno’s book Return of the Strong Gods, in which the author calls for strengthening the loves and loyalties that hold Western societies together. At the end of […]
The problem with government today is that it leaves out human beings. That’s not an oversight. It follows from the basic principles on which public thought is now carried on. The kind of thought now […]
Culture does not come to exist out of necessity, rather, culture can be seen as an analog to creation: it comes to exist out of […]
Liturgy – like the Faith it celebrates – never admits of an “erector-set” approach; good liturgy, true liturgy is received, not fabricated, and it takes […]
The seldom-told stories of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. […]
Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe provides a brave and important, if not complete, assessment of the West’s dire situation. […]
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