Tragedy and Eucatastrophe: Woody Allen’s Recent Magic

Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight has not received the credit it deserves. It conducts a thought experiment on the possibility of human conversion.

The Neo-Conservative Imagination: An Interview with Patrick Deneen, Part III

The final installment of Artur Rosman’s three-part interview with Patrick Deneen on conservatism, economics, and politics.

The Neo-Conservative Imagination: An Interview with Patrick Deneen, Part II

Part II of Artur Rosman’s interview series with Patrick Deneen.

The Polish Lesson: From Communism to Solidarity to Capitalism

Catholic social teaching is possible to realize on a large scale. But can it be sustained over the long term? Do Catholics have the wherewithal to try it again? Or are we stuck with “divide and conquer”?

The Neo-Conservative Imagination: An Interview with Patrick Deneen

What drives a neo-conservative reading of Catholic social teaching? And why does it cling so fast to capitalism as the great white hope?

Apologetics and the Perversity of Reason

Low-lier polemics could potentially be winning people for atheism. This calls to mind the great lesson of von Balthasar: the form of our theology matters as much as its content.

Catholic Fertility and Capitalist Celibacy

Can we reconfigure the parish as a site of fertile resistance to capitalist (in-)fertility, especially when we have John Paul II’s groundbreaking insights in Love and Responsibility and Man and Woman He Created Them?

Neither Nye Nor Gopnik: 10 Atheists Who Engage Religion Charitably

Artur Rosman compiles a list of 10 books written by atheists who seriously and charitably engage religion.