Count your days

Michael Gerson on mortality.

People without a past

An excellent essay by Dana Gioia.

Bodies

Why contemporary culture has much in common with gnosticism.

Neither citizens nor humans

Patrick J. Deneen on the "common core" controversy.

No way to educate

A large group of Catholic scholars comes out against the adoption of the Common Core by Catholic schools.

Out of touch with reality

Megan McArdle offers an informative analysis of what went wrong with the ACA implementation.

Something missing

People seem to have a deep-seated need to know their father.

Booming

A "different" assessment of the situation of the Church in Latin America.

Creative minorities

On a recent appearance by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Catastrophe

John Allen sounds the alarm on anti-Christian persecutions around the world. One wonders why he had to publish this piece in England in The Spectator.

Neo-feudalism

Another interesting analysis by Joel Kotkin. However, his sociological analysis ignores the philosophical attitudes which underpin these new social trends: the radical positivistic-bourgeois ideology of the affluent society, which has started in the 1950's as a cult of "production" and has since turned "green."

What comes first

A recollection by Archbishop Filippo Santoro about the 2007 "Aparecida" conference of the South American bishops.

No legalism

Michael Gerson (a Protestant) has a clear grasp of what the Pope mhas been talking about.

Not the real problem

A counter-cultural critique of the neo-Malthusian theory of overpopulation.

Surprised by Christ

Eight interviews with converts to Christianity.