Alejandro Nava begins his formal analysis by situating hip-hop as something that “recovers the oral, rhythmic, and melodic nature of ancient scriptural transmission.”
Sam Rocha
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Túpac Shakur at 50: Remembering an underdog prophet
Túpac Shakur is widely recognized as a musical pioneer. On what would be his 50th birthday, it is time to recognize him as a prophet as well.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The same Catholics who condemn ‘relativism’ and a ‘culture of death’ have built a deadly, post-truth world
Catholics in the United States who frequently use the expressions “culture of death” and “dictatorship of relativism” increasingly inhabit—and have helped to build—a world that these slogans describe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
No, the Catholic intellectual tradition is not a thing of the past.
The five most memorable books of Sam Rocha’s summer formed “a resounding counterfactual rebuke of the cottage industry reporting the doom of Catholic academia.”