Prices keep going up. Neighbors are picked up off the streets and sent to detention camps. War ravages the Middle East. There may not be much to laugh...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Meeting the Enemy By Kevin J. O’Brien (Fortress Press, 2025) Some faith groups have called for fossil fuel divestment as a way to stifle climate change. But...
Through this Fire Across from Peter Balkan The Mountain Goats (Cadmean Dawn, 2025) Despite the title, the prominent element in the Mountain Goats’ latest album...
How do you teach someone who doesn’t want to learn? You might look for new ways to engage people who, at best, are indifferent to your message and at worst...
My dad and I communicate largely through rock ’n’ roll. It’s easier than direct conversation. In my early teens, I discovered the riches of his generation’s...
I’ll admit, I’m judgy. For example, I once grew irritated with a good friend after they went a few weeks without communicating. Then I received their...
The Unstoppable . . . Dave Chappelle (Netflix, 2025) Dave Chappelle’s latest stand-up special is paradoxical. He plays a massive stadium show as if it were a...
I’m playing the 2018 city-building game Frostpunk, and I have a decision to make. Frostpunk casts the player as the leader of an isolated city in an alternate...
The American Revolution (PBS), directed and produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, is not only smart, but also wise. The Federalist and the...
With You Courtney Hartman (Reckoner Records, 2025) Courtney Hartman is a guitarist and songwriter from Colorado whose music is imbued with a sense of place. In...
