Discerning the Devil in the Details
By:Now that we are passed the halfway point in Lent, it wouldn't hurt to take a moment and examine the progress we've hopefully made thus far by looking b…
Intellectual Life
Triumph of the Beta Male?
By:I recently saw this headline: "Triumph of the Beta Male." It's a story on the HBO series 'Silicon Valley.' I've never seen it. I'm not concerned…
Masculine Failure in the Passion of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas
By:#MeToo We live in a culture that is both overtly sexualized and violent. When those two trends collide, collectively society is rightly appalled as we…
The War for the Beautiful
By:What do you really know about art? If you’re like me, not nearly enough. Cultured Catholic men often explore Gregorian chant and liturgical music to en…
Neo-Pagan Masculinity and Viking Metal
By:There are currently 3 pro-male movements in competition with one another: Christian Masculinity Movement. It stresses the role of matrimony, fath…
Bloody Boring: A Review of Blood Meridian
By:Following the lead of America’s favorite English professor Harold Bloom, literary critics have canonized Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian as the …
Tolkien Typology (Part II): Denethor as Judas and Saruman as Peter
By:Tolkien Typology In my previous piece, I mentioned briefly the principles of Christian typology found in Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings saga. Namely…
Tolkien Typology (Part I): Samwise as John and Sméagol as Judas
By:"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is wh…
Truth is Stronger than Fiction Review of 12 Strong
By:Based on Doug Stanton's 2009 book Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan, 12 Strong tells …
The Limits of My Nostalgia- Review of The Last Jedi
By:While the latest installment in the Star Wars saga has been very favorably received by critics, the reception by long-time fans has been somewhat mixed…