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The political world would not be happy if it were not having regular freak-outs that allow its members to think ill of their ideological opp...

We were traveling this last weekend, getting the chance both to attend the baptism of MrsDarwin's newest nephew and to spent some very e...

We are fortunate to live within walking distance of a charming old movie house. It's been in constant operation since 1916, which appare...

The Dark Night of the Soul is a condition experienced by the great mystics and holy souls. It consists of the withdrawal of feelings of cons...

Simcha Fisher  shares a link to  a project at the Musee de la Civilisation  in Quebec, which analyzes your photo and assigns you your Greco-...

If you're yearning for some Irish tunes on this St. Patrick's Day, here are my brothers Will and Nathanael Egan and a smattering of ...

I was deeply impressed when I read J. D. Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy a few months back. It's been pitched heavily during the e...

This took longer than I'd expected, but I hope you'll enjoy it now it's here. We're with Henri, on the front lines. 7th...

It's the second week of Lent, which means that observance has lost its zest. I don't know about you, but I'm yearning for a bit ...

Several people have been passing around a Boston Globe Magazine article about the tendency of middle aged men not to spend time with friends...

The human body is weird, "normal" means little, and the course of thriving never did run straight. Current example: The Snaggleto...

The Fall of Rome is much in the news at the moment, not because the Visigoths are back sacking that most revered of cities, but rather becau...

All good things must come to an end, and this week I forfeited my ability to milk sympathy for non-first world problems. Specifically: in...

The Trump administration has been making initial moves towards stepping up enforcement against the estimated eleven million immigrants who a...

Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man...

A friend who is a professor of ethics at a Catholic university posted this clip from the 1992 film Last of the Mohicans and asked: For tho...

Yesterday my eight-year-old had to read 1 Kings 18:17-39, in which Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal to a to a contest to see whose God...