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Something Missing from High School Curricula

Jack Trent

July 8, 2026

A reductionistic pseudo-philosophy—usually history or psychology—is taking philosophy’s place in students’ minds. And the consequences are cataclysmic. 

‘Obsession’ Features a Moral Imagination with Layers of Truth

Nora Kenney Mittiga

July 7, 2026

The film suggests that the desire for control, whether exercised through magic, manipulation, or consumerism, ultimately destroys the very thing it seeks to possess.

A Burning, Bitter Tide: Eric Rohmer’s Catholic Fiction

Andrew Tolkmith

July 7, 2026

Few can dispute that Rohmer’s faith figures into his filmmaking, but new access to his fiction invites novel comparisons to other Catholic writers.

The Trillion-Dollar Babel

Sebastian Barros

July 6, 2026

If Silicon Valley’s multitrillion-dollar objective is to eradicate friction, the Church must position itself as the guardians of “holy friction.”

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