Reviews

Book review: The Closing of the American Mind: 30 years later

Author Allan Bloom 1987 (Simon & Schuster) In this essay, I offer…

About the Author: Nathan Schlueter

Nathan Schlueter is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Hillsdale College. He is the author, with Nikolai Wenzel, of Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives? The Foundations of the Libertarian-Conservative Debate. This article originally appeared in Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, NJ, and is reprinted with permission. See http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/05/18956/ for the original article.

Film review: Alien: Covenant

Director Ridley Scott Stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup Once you’ve…

About the Author: John Mulderig

Book review: Beyond Radical Secularism

Author Pierre Manent Publisher St. Augustine’s Press, 2016 Beyond Radical Secularism was…

About the Author: Rev C. John McCloskey

Rev C. John McCloskey III is a Catholic priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross. He is the former director of the Catholic Information Center of the Archdiocese of Washington. Website: www.frmccloskey.com.

Film review: Arrival and the unique manner of divine speech

Director Denis Villeneuve Stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Like E.T.,…

About the Author: Bishop Robert Barron

This article first appeared at: www.wordonfire.org. Bishop Robert Barron is an author, speaker, theologian, and founder of Word on Fire, a global media ministry. This article has been reprinted with the kind permission of the editors.

Film review: Silence: A Different Perspective

This is response to the review of this movie by Mr Brad…

About the Author: Fr Conor Donnelly

Fr Conor Donnelly qualified as a medical doctor in University College Dublin in 1977 and worked as a house physician and surgeon for one year at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. He was ordained a priest in 1981 for the Prelature of Opus Dei. He obtained a doctorate in Theology from the University of Navarre, Spain in 1982. He is at present the chaplain of Kianda School for Girls, Kenya.

7 Books to feed the mind and edify the soul in 2017

Whether dealing with timeless questions of metaphysics and phenomenology, or the social…

About the Author: Matthew Becklo

Matthew Becklo is a husband and father, amateur philosopher, and cultural commentator at Aleteia and Word on Fire. His writing has been featured in First Things, The Dish, and Real Clear Religion.