Public Discourse

The Body of this Death: Letters from the Last Archbishop of Lancaster is a haunting work, written, as it were, in chiaroscuro. It weaves its spell through language at once gnomic and precise, incantatory and compelling.  ...

If reports are correct, religion is regaining ground among young people in America and

Abortion was sold to women as reproductive justice, and the abortion pill, mifepristone, as the means to access justice through bodily autonomy. 

While the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone originally came with Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), safeguards included in this protocol have been progressively removed, leaving mifep...

This essay was adapted from a talk given for the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies. It was originally published on May 8, 2025.

Reading a children’s book of the Gospels one evening, my son and I found the story in which Jesus heals a blind man with clay and spittle. “Why did he spit?” my three-year-old asked. He had been learning har...

It would be an exaggeration to say that the origin of philosophy, or the love of wisdom, is identical to the origin of philology, the love of words. But the philosopher to whom the tradition of Western philosophy traces its origins, Socrates, was rather fond of catalyzing philosophical reflection by asking his often-perturbed interlocutors to define the precise ...