In this week’s best-of roundup, we think about Rainer Maria Rilke, the ontology of God, and Italian pop music from the 1970s.

In a time of goblin mode, we think about C.S. Lewis, Christian apologetics, and Nancy Fraser.

No album has so consistently tried to kill me as much as Sufjan Stevens’s 2015 Carrie and Lowell.

The film Heretic offers a very rare exploration into faith and morality, even though it’s a gruesome horror movie.

One former PhD student’s harrowing experience points to an opaque and capricious system.

In the time of COVID, we are all married to each other. But some of our spouses are sociopaths.

  Lo these many years ago, a scruffy band of boho assholes with incomprehensible lyrics and a Burroughs […]

Both films show how human faith falters in the face of planetary crisis. Only it’s not the Cold War anymore.