Public Discourse

We are talking less these days. The noise generated by AI slop may be on the rise, but we humans are speaking less to each other, our conversations replaced by digital technology. One psychology professor

America’s semiquincentennial is a fitting occasion to take stock, not only of the institutions the framers built, but of those they inherited and chose, deliberately, to leave intact. Chief among the latter was marriage. The framers did not invent marriage, and they did not presume to redefine it. They received it, as every generation before them had received it, as the insti...

Patristics, theology, and right sense in public discourse lost a giant. On June 6 of this year, Robert Louis Wilken passed from this life at the age of eighty-nine. He leaves behind his beloved wife of sixty-six years, Carol, their family and loved ones, and many admirers who know him through his books. 

Before he was a prolific author, Robert was an avid r...

A Note from the Editors: We will be taking a brief publication break in observance of Independence Day and the semiquincentennial. We will resume our normal publication schedule with new, original essays on July 12th. In the meantime, please enjoy a few of our favorites from the archives

“The Declaration of Independence itself,” note Catholic legal scholars Michael Scaperlanda and Teresa Collett, 

reflects several assumptions about the nature of the human person. Broadly speaking, it assumes that (a) the human race did n...