Four of my favorite reads from 2018
Tag Archives: Religion
Favorite Books of 2017
Six of my favorite reads from 2017
Favorite Books of 2016
My favorite five books from the year
Gethsemane
Thoughts after the election of Trump
Father Joseph’s Folly
Some gems from Aldous Huxley’s “Grey Eminence” (1941)
Confessions
Some wisdom from St. Augustine
Favorite Books of 2015
A dozen book recommendations
Favorite Books of 2014
Following the smashing success1 of last year’s post on my favorite books from 2013, I thought I’d aim for a repeat and perhaps inspire some gift ideas for the holidays. Here are 11 standouts that I remember from this year.
Pope Francis’s Critique of Capitalism and the Quest for the Good Life
Last month, FT Alphaville’s Izabella Kaminska picked up a potent critique of free-market capitalism from Pope Francis’s first Apostolic Exhortation.1 I must confess, I’m not a regular reader of papal exhortations—indeed, papal pronouncements of any variety tend not to make my “to read” list2—but the snippets Kaminska selected gave me pause.