Under an Open Sky

Man is an animal. But not just any animal. “Man does not live by bread alone.” He is a desiring creature. He is never content with the earthly here and …
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In Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush & Byron Howard, 2025), Hollywood once again entrusts its political intuitions to animals, as though nonhuman faces could soften the blows of contentious themes. The …
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Deharbe’s Catechism, which I was taught from an early age, begins thus:

Q: Who made you? A: God made me. Q: And why did God make you? A: To …
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I was recently in Naples for a conference, a marvelous city that I like to think of as “the Italy of Italy.” In one of its countless souvenir shops, most …
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