Patrick O'Hannigan

Argument has fallen on hard times. That might seem an odd thing to say in an election year roiled by…

Duke Divinity School professor Norman Wirzba wrote recently about why he thinks we ought to declare the end of “Christian…

Very few books can be summarized as “social science by a prayerful engineer wearing a hauberk,” but John Gravino’s The…

At least one reader on a news aggregator website for conservatives recently sniffed that anyone who hates as much as…

Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic recently took a poet to task because that poet had written to an advice columnist…

Dear journalists: May I have a public word with you, especially if you edit the Raleigh News and Observer? You…

Canadian essayist David Warren is a man with whom I seldom disagree. Imagine my surprise on reading his depressing assessment…

Writing in Al Jazeera America, a Ph.D. student in “religion and critical thought” at Brown University recently declared 2014 “the…

In the unlikely event that administrative assistants behind the “For Dummies” book series are preparing galley proofs for a title…

Late in the morning of Sunday, April 27, a movie theater in Morrisville, NC rebroadcast the Canonization Mass for pope…