As I write this, I have friends preparing for mid-terms. Last year around this time, I’d be taunting them. For the first time since I was a toddler, I was out of school in October — no classes, no...

During a speech to a joint session of the United States Congress in September 2015, Pope Francis singled out an American monk named Thomas Merton as one of four great Americans who “offer us a way of...

This piece should begin with a spoiler alert, but there’s nothing to spoil in this film, really — at the beginning of the movie, Joaquin Phoenix is a man named Arthur Fleck, and by the end, he’s...