

Sacred Art as an Antidote to Pornography
I profiled the sculptor Dony Mac Manus, and he told me about how he sees his figural art as a way to help heal a pornified culture. He...


Down with Ads, Up with Art
"When Calvin Klein plasters billboards with a sprawl of underwear-clad Kardashians, the company is recapitulating the harasser’s logic of...

The Divine (Situational) Comedy
"The Good Place is the most unexpectedly profound show on television. NBC’s afterlife sitcom, which just concluded its second season,...


Prisoners are Not Animals
"We will not make our culture healthier or our children safer by treating the sexual assault of prisoners as normal, or funny, or just....


Suffering in the Shadowlands
"The script, based on Lewis’s book A Grief Observed, tells how Joy Davidman, a brash American convert, barrelled into C.S. Lewis’s...


Re-Enchanting Silicon Valley
"Despite their commitment to the idea that genuine community can exist on the internet, many rationalists have affirmed the importance of...

The Last Jedi: Godspeed, Rebels!
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi is an excellent addition to the Star Wars canon, precisely because it is not cowed by its predecessors....

The Undeath of Cinema
"Now, there are ways that Cushing’s digital resurrection is not so different from techniques used in other Star Wars films. Guy Henry...


America for the Immaculata
"When I was learning about Catholicism, as an Anglican in the process of converting, Mary was a sticking point. Yes, of course Jesus’s...


Civic Damnation, or Farce?
"...This Measure for Measure, Elevator Repair Service’s first foray into Shakespeare, also deals with the messy intersection of law and...