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May 2024

May 14, 2024

All’s Fair in Love and Tennis

Challengers (2024) satisfies. The actors perform admirably. I don’t know much about tennis, but the...

April 2024

April 22, 2024

ASMR avec Melville

The “dull” and the “interesting” are more fungible than we’d like to admit. Intersubjectively, this...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

Catfish: Five Years On

On September 12, 2016, I published a piece about Catholic Twitter’s most notorious catfish....

May 2020

May 07, 2020

In the Ruins of Decaying Empire

On Wednesday, two customers in an Oklahoma City McDonald's shot at employees. They were not...

May 04, 2020

Inhabiting the New Normal

As with many things we talk about, American discussions of COVID-19 seem limited, limited to...

December 2019

December 10, 2019

Living Saints: Frances

Life is hard. Everyday we wake up and do it again, coffee in hand moments...

December 05, 2019

Confessions of an Ironic Structuralist

Poetry began my love affair with literature. Discovering Donne, seeing the ways in which language...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Evangelical Christianity: The American Imperial Church?

If Catholicism came to Latin America with conquistadors, evangelicalism has found its way southward through...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

Does What You Believe Affect What You Do?

I am a Slovak-American. This means I care about something that, I imagine, fairly few...

October 28, 2019

America’s Fifth Great Awakening

It is here and He is risen. Kanye West’s new album, Jesus is King, hit...

July 2019

July 04, 2019

Catholic and American?

As a kid, I watched the History Channel special on the American Revolution every year....

July 03, 2019

Traditionalism, Fruit of Vatican II

Traditionalist orders and parishes are on the rise. The Dutch Dominicans are full of new...

April 2019

April 18, 2019

Japanese Anti-Capitalism and the Post-Christian Future

The Bad Sleep Well is my favorite film by Akira Kurosawa. As with many of...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

Live, Leisure, Die

Paul J. Griffiths has a recent piece on work, worship, and leisure. The first two...

July 06, 2018

Hymns for the Working Class

Did Trump win because of the dissatisfaction of the working class? Some say “yea”; some...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Religion, Community, Secularity (An Interview)

The following is an interview with a dear friend (a writer and, dare I...

May 16, 2018

Married Priests?

Bishop Tobin of Providence is in the news for a recent tweet about the Catholic...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Eastern Christianity and Orientalism

Here, by “Eastern Christianity” I mean mostly “Byzantine Christianity,” what most people know through Eastern...

March 20, 2018

When Virtue Becomes Vice and Vice Becomes Virtue

I encounter this all the time. One man’s “righteous zeal” seems to another an unjust...

January 2018

January 11, 2018

Francis and the Benedict Option

No, not the pope, but the friar. St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

What Is Religious Art?

Does our definition of religious art matter?

August 08, 2017

Catholic Modesty Fetishism

This is post is not about modesty as such. To go on about our cultural...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Depressive Catholicism

It would be wrong of me to identify as “depressed.” For one, I’ve never been...

June 2017

June 07, 2017

Nostalgia: Enemy of Christianity

Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia—these days a common thing. My father re-watches Smokey and the Bandit, pining...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

The Thing about First Things

During my senior year of college, I took over our campus’s right-leaning paper, The Fenwick...

May 08, 2017

Pope Francis Revisited

Will we read him with suspicion, or shall we honor him in love?

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Francis, My Pope

I am thankful for Pope Francis’ deep faith and joyous persona, for the hope he...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

Empty Traditionalism

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does...

February 13, 2017

We Are All Extremists

Extremism is a popular topic these days. For the “Right,” it’s of the Islamic variety;...

February 08, 2017

Beware the But(t)

This is a continuation of my recent “Catholic first” shtick (though I suppose that’s always...