Try to think

Fr. Matt Malone points out correctly that our society lacks "philosophy." One could argue that its philosophy is a form of scientism that pretends not to be a philosophy but must be challenged as such.

Elitism

An interesting interview with Fred Siegel on the trajectory of US liberalism.

Mythical core

Alan Jacobs on how humans really operate.

Age of Outrage

Jonathan Haidt on the situation in the universities.

The exhaustion of technocracy

An interesting essay by Frank Furedi.

Primal scream

Mary Eberstadt thinks that there is a connection between identity politics and the long-term effects of the sexual revolution.

Politics as redemptive religion

Why many politically-engaged millennials are Blochians without knowing it.

We are different...

A report from Jerusalem by Santiago Ramos.

False Europe

A manifesto by a group of well-known European intellectuals.

Evangelization for our time

Michael Sean Winters reviews Julian Carron's "Disarming Beauty".

Mindful of what?

The problem with mindfulness is that if it is separated by the religious sense it just becomes another technique.

Dumbification

Matt Taibbi on the media's responsibilities in the age of Trump.

What we really are

A column by Bruce Buff on artificial intelligence.

A crisis?

Some striking research on the effects of smart phones on young people.

Bad but important

Ross Douthat is not impressed by Civilta` Cattolica's grasp of the American situation.