For heaven’s sake—someone had to throw a first punch.
America can often be an ugly place, but the field sobriety test is a flower of its field.
The nesting urge is not born in the months before birth. It does not arrive from out of the blue.
The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is the only real, living, alternative to a world of unreality.
In the heavenly city, darkness and night are dispelled by the constant radiance of God. Our earthly cities have made a parody of this.
The meaning of identity is the question that now roils societies.
Liberalism is on the defensive. Political discussion is shifting from “what’s wrong with liberalism” to “what’s true about politics”—to the question of what exactly must displace liberalism. In The Politics of the Real, D. C. Schindler takes us to the definitive metaphysical roots of liberal politics: the modern reversal of the priority of act over potency; the modern privileging of empty possibility over flourishing perfection. In this podcast, Michael Boland and D. C. Schindler discuss liberalism, and how we can build a politics of the real.
The development and use of AI chatbots has grown massively. With hundreds of millions of users, OpenAI, XAI, Claude AI, and others have become a normal part of many people's day. Some Christians have an uneasy attitude toward the use of AI Chatbots, while others are supportive and have developed their own. In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Alex Denley discuss the moral question: whether Christians should use AI chatbots, and the ramifications that it has on human nature.
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A new king has arrived—and we’ve given him the crown.