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“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” -Oscar Wilde Scrolling...

Dionysus (or Bacchus, in the Latin rendering) is the Greek god of wine, drunkenness, fertility,...

Recently a group of friends recounted to me a scene at a party involving an...

Quentin Crisp, the British aesthete, came to fame in the 1940s for being one of...

Ever since The Weeknd rose to fame in the early 2010’s, commercial R&B music has...

“Thirst traps” posted by males on social media invert the male gaze, furthering the neoliberal...

“Safaera,” Bad Bunny ft. Jowell y Randy and Nengo Flow The intro to Bad Bunny’s...

Exercising at a gym is the supreme expression of the atomized neoliberal self. In pre-modern...

Spotify Wrapped represents the atomization of the consumption of art and its subjection to the...

5 most fun articles to write this year: 1. Me explaining why before you criticize...

So what the hell is cracks in Postmodernity? People keep asking me what this esoteric...

Mental health and the alarming rise of suicides among young people--most wouldn’t consider these to...

The school where I teach spent the summer debating whether or not to attempt a...

“I used to distract myself,” writes James Baldwin in his 1964 essay Nothing Personal, “some...

“The Pope said something about gay.” *cue media firestorm* As the author of Ecclesiastes reminds...

As a teacher at (what used to be) an all boys Benedictine high school, I’m...

For reggaeton artist Ozuna, life is an “odyssey.” In a genre that tended to uphold...

A letter to my students at our Benedictine high school Picture this--you’re sitting in the...

“With God, there’s no one who can keep the phoenix from flying.”  Puerto Rican Reggaeton...

Originally Published in Convivium Journal, available for purchase at Amazon My grandfather grasped the chant...

If there was any plus side to living through a global pandemic, it was finding...

Hulu's Ramy is loosely based on the life of Ramy Youssef, who the show stars and...

Any sane person would walk away from Martin Scorsese's new film Silence with a profound...

Entering into one the many New York subway cars that service millions of locals, tourists,...

When teaching Christopher West's Fill These Hearts (a simplified analysis of the John Paul II's...

"In music. . . what man pays homage to is something else, something he is...

As expected, conservative Christians are up in arms over the first Hallmark Christmas movie featuring...

Among the most prominent objections to the strictly allegorical reading of the Song is the...

The intended meaning of the Song of Songs has been a matter of contention since...

I’ve been on a fiction kick. Ever since finishing my master’s thesis, I find that...