By a bizarre twist of fate, the taste of the age, “hipster taste,” runs parallel to monastic notions of work, prayer and what we might call the monastic aesthetic.

If Thoreau’s words merely decorate the playrooms of grown children, his burial is long overdue.

Daniel J. Morrissey reviews "Sex and the Constitution" by Geoffrey R. Stone.

Peter C. Phan reviews "Sin in the Sixties: Catholics and Confessions 1955-1975" by Maria C. Morrow.

Jennifer Levasseur reviews "Between Them: Remembering My Parents" by Richard Ford.

The story of Shakespeare is eternally appealing, because we want to know what confluence of circumstances, or divine blessing, could produce such a towering figure.