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Dec 3, 2025
In the third grade, my teacher asked if we knew the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I immediately shot my hand up and recited what my parents had taught me:...
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Dec 2, 2025
Many have had a hard time pinning down our ideological commitments at Cracks in Postmodernity, the multimedia platform I run which is dedicated to exploring the intersection of...
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Nov 20, 2025
Unlike rural and urban areas, suburbia is predicated on something unnatural and slightly diabolical: it is determined to suppress being in relationship with other people and...
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Nov 19, 2025
In music,” writes the Italian priest Luigi Giussani, “what man pays homage to is something else, something he is waiting for.” Upon hearing a beautiful song,...
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Oct 30, 2025
Back in 2011, I fell into a mental collapse which involved my telling my parents that I had to escape the “matrix” of our “fake” society—which...
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Oct 3, 2025
To date, 21 US states have enacted legislation requiring pornography websites (websites with over one-third explicit content) to use stringent age verification systems. Yet minors...
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Sep 11, 2025
During my senior year of high school, a friend of mine — let’s call her “Mary” — told me that she liked a guy, “Jack,” in our class. I...
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Aug 21, 2025
When I was sent to a mental institution during my freshman year of college, I found myself having to explain over and over again to interns in white coats with notepads in hand that...
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Aug 20, 2025
Last October, the UK Office for Equality and Opportunity confirmed its intentions to push forward a bill banning gay conversion therapy. Should Britain prohibit the...
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Aug 4, 2025
I descended into the cavernous belly of the New York City subway system last week and waited on the platform for the R train to come — an experience akin to waiting for the...
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Jul 28, 2025
Writers who don’t fit neatly into ideological boxes are often dismissed as deceptive or unserious. I’ll admit that part of my own resistance to staying within ideological...
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Jul 8, 2025
After my great aunt’s funeral a few months ago, my father took me for a ride around his old neighborhood. Newark’s North Ward was a lively Italian enclave until the...
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Jul 3, 2025
We’re back at it again with our annual Summer Book List.
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Jul 1, 2025
While visiting a friend in Washington, DC, last month, I was perplexed by the sheer number of premature rainbow flags, logos, and crosswalks adorning the city. “It’s not...
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Jun 3, 2025
How far should one go to “become all things to all people,” to be in the world but not of it? In the words of the late Pope Francis, we ought never be so naive as to...
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May 21, 2025
During the height of the pandemic, the Spanish priest Julian Carron published a book posing the simple yet loaded question: “Is there hope?” “The pandemic,”...
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May 12, 2025
A wide variety of evangelizing efforts have set out to make the church more relevant to young people. A new book by the sociologist Musa al-Gharbi is essential reading for those...
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May 9, 2025
In his seminal 1979 book The Culture of Narcissism, the American historian Christopher Lasch warned of the increasing normalization of pathological narcissism. Though he was...
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May 7, 2025
The “competitive verticality” of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, wrote the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, was once “an architectural panorama reflecting the...
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Apr 17, 2025
Upon walking into my family’s beachfront vacation home, I checked my bags, which were full of books by Kierkegaard, Paglia, Lasch, Girard, Huysmans, Teresa of Avila, and...
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Apr 7, 2025
In May 1974, the queer Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Beirut, Lebanon to screen three of his films. At the time, the country was in the midst of anti-colonial and...
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Mar 27, 2025
Andy Warhol’s reproductions of popular brand logos have sparked debate as to whether he is playfully critiquing consumerism or snarkily endorsing it. Similarly, the subject of...
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Mar 7, 2025
Last October, the UK Office for Equality and Opportunity confirmed its intentions to push forward a bill banning gay conversion therapy. Should Britain prohibit the...
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Jan 28, 2025
The late British writer Quentin Crisp, despite being one of the first openly homosexual men in England, was lambasted as “homophobic” and...
Dec 3, 2025In the third grade, my teacher asked if we knew the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I immediately shot my hand up and recited what my parents had taught me:...
Dec 2, 2025Many have had a hard time pinning down our ideological commitments at Cracks in Postmodernity, the multimedia platform I run which is dedicated to exploring the intersection of...
Nov 19, 2025In music,” writes the Italian priest Luigi Giussani, “what man pays homage to is something else, something he is waiting for.” Upon hearing a beautiful song,...
Oct 30, 2025Back in 2011, I fell into a mental collapse which involved my telling my parents that I had to escape the “matrix” of our “fake” society—which...
Sep 11, 2025During my senior year of high school, a friend of mine — let’s call her “Mary” — told me that she liked a guy, “Jack,” in our class. I...
Aug 21, 2025When I was sent to a mental institution during my freshman year of college, I found myself having to explain over and over again to interns in white coats with notepads in hand that...
Aug 20, 2025Last October, the UK Office for Equality and Opportunity confirmed its intentions to push forward a bill banning gay conversion therapy. Should Britain prohibit the...
Aug 4, 2025I descended into the cavernous belly of the New York City subway system last week and waited on the platform for the R train to come — an experience akin to waiting for the...
Jul 28, 2025Writers who don’t fit neatly into ideological boxes are often dismissed as deceptive or unserious. I’ll admit that part of my own resistance to staying within ideological...
Jul 8, 2025After my great aunt’s funeral a few months ago, my father took me for a ride around his old neighborhood. Newark’s North Ward was a lively Italian enclave until the...
Jul 3, 2025We’re back at it again with our annual Summer Book List.
Jul 1, 2025While visiting a friend in Washington, DC, last month, I was perplexed by the sheer number of premature rainbow flags, logos, and crosswalks adorning the city. “It’s not...
Jun 3, 2025How far should one go to “become all things to all people,” to be in the world but not of it? In the words of the late Pope Francis, we ought never be so naive as to...
May 21, 2025During the height of the pandemic, the Spanish priest Julian Carron published a book posing the simple yet loaded question: “Is there hope?” “The pandemic,”...
May 7, 2025The “competitive verticality” of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, wrote the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, was once “an architectural panorama reflecting the...
Apr 7, 2025In May 1974, the queer Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Beirut, Lebanon to screen three of his films. At the time, the country was in the midst of anti-colonial and...
Mar 27, 2025Andy Warhol’s reproductions of popular brand logos have sparked debate as to whether he is playfully critiquing consumerism or snarkily endorsing it. Similarly, the subject of...
Jan 28, 2025The late British writer Quentin Crisp, despite being one of the first openly homosexual men in England, was lambasted as “homophobic” and...