Lost city?

An interesting but pessimistic article on the evolution of New York City.

That makes sense

There is a connection between suicide and the perception that our life is meaningless.

Original sin

"It’s as if there’s a flaw, ... there’s a flaw in our code and it follows us around."

Unhealthy

More on loneliness.

Personalism

This week David Brooks is embracing a distinctly Catholic philosophical tradition.

Isolated

An epidemics of loneliness.

Beauty educates

A great column by David Brooks on "La Cometa."

Seeking transcendence

Michael Brendan Dougherty makes a good point: in a culture bereft of ideals the only two ways to participate in political life are either as technocrats or as victims.

Part of the problem

If literature professors think that there are no universal truths and values, only power and ideology, why should politicians think any different?

Epidemic of fatherlessness

Mike Rowe makes a good point.

Paradigm shift

The Gospels as oral history.

A form of self-giving

Terry Eagleton on death.

Waiting for a sign

A book review on the plight of the millennial generation.

A fact

Cardinal Muller makes an interesting connection between Christianity being a fact and how to understand the development of doctrine.

In my own home

This father's reaction to the Florid shooting is heartfelt.