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November 2019

November 25, 2019

Object To Student Loan Forgiveness? This is Neither Ethical, Practical, Nor Christian

The conversation about student loan forgiveness has come around again, and once again we are...

October 2019

October 27, 2019

Church As Empire? This Is Not the Catholicism I Signed Up For

But what I am seeing right now is a movement in Catholicism to make it...

May 2019

May 26, 2019

“The Things I Do For Love” – Game of Thrones, The Classics, and the Human Condition

This might seem cynical to people brought up on feel-good romances, the inheritors of our...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

Contrapasso in the Heartlands: When We Reject The Common Good

Dante’s image may seem over-the-top, but when I look at the ferocity with which my...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Some Dead White Males on the Topic of “Not Taking Sides”

Whatever you are, this is one of those times in history in which refusing to...

June 11, 2018

The Western Canon, Incels, and a Problem with Pedagogy

How many professors at the kind of schools that emphasize the canon are willing to...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

the politics of doing poetry (or the poetry of doing politics)

Our literary trend is now dystopian, and the fact that so many teen and YA...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

pope francis goes medieval on “bloodsucking bosses”

While repeatedly, throughout history, lust for wealth and power has driven humans to clever interpretations...