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March 2023

March 29, 2023

The Myth of True Crime

When I went to summer camp in New Jersey in the late 90s and 2000s,...

January 2023

January 20, 2023

Love, Death, and Mr. Joyboy

The nigher the end, the wonkier the appetite. Whether it’s Jay and Silent Bob in...

November 2022

November 05, 2022

Elizabeth Taylor’s Roman Holiday

Identikit (1974, also called The Driver’s Seat) sets its terms of engagement from the very...

September 2022

September 06, 2022

Fact, Fiction, or Just the Way Things Are?

1998’s The Last Broadcast is a movie made for me. I am a staunch New...

August 2022

August 26, 2022

Wake Me Up When I’m Rock Hudson, then Kill Me

Reincarnation always seemed worse than Hell to me. Never mind that I feel pretty bound...

August 08, 2022

A Slow Death in Oslo

Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st (2011) is the perfect film to watch as an early...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Prayer is Left

I find myself in an uneasy situation. I don't love either Donald Trump or Joe...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Nietzsche and Me

A student followed me out of class the other day; he couldn’t believe that I,...

December 2019

December 10, 2019

Living Saints: Frances

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

November 2019

November 12, 2019

The Temptation of Schism

For it is the Church that gives birth to all, either within her pale, of her own...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

God of Gods

“No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a...

July 24, 2018

Live, Leisure, Die

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

August 2017

August 01, 2017

Dying Before You Die

Memento Mori, the Ars Moriendi, the Danse Macabre, even Fish Fridays—the Church has developed many...

April 2016

April 02, 2016

Mother Angelica, I Hardly Knew Ye

Mother Angelica’s repose has been a cause for personal reflection; she constituted a part of...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Why I Oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide

“Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand...