"All of us come from a place we mistake for universal," Kenneth L. Woodward explains, "So you should know something of mine."

How can we justify the military giving addictive pills to their warriors?

Finding faith after an unexpected death.

Learning to see Girard as an “unlikely apologist” for the Christian story does not undermine orthodox faith—it is an extremely viable path forward.

With a sense of itself as the future of humanity, Facebook proves to be no ordinary company. When you’ve got a billion users, Martínez points out, it doesn’t matter if your advertising model is enormously flawed.

As one reviewer observed, “She began by writing about sidewalks and finished with an account of Western civilization itself.”