03Aug

A Homily Inspired by René Girard

August 3, 2023 Alex Lessard

17Mar

Gil Bailie & Jean-Michel Oughourlian on David Gornoski’s “Things Hidden” Podcast

March 17, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

08Mar

March 8, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

Perpetual Felicity We recently (March 7th) celebrated the memorial of Sts. Purpetua and Felicity, two young women, one a noblewoman...

21Oct

October 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In 2005 journalist Nathan Gardels interviewed René Girard. The resulting article was published in the Huffington Post under the title...

14Sep

September 14, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

It is always encouraging to find others who are working to make the work of René Girard better known. Of...

03Sep

September 3, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 news outlets, internet pundits, and all...

15Jun

June 15, 2020 Gil Bailie

“If we project our own mimetic tangles upon society as a whole, the more entangled we are, the more rigid...

06Jan

January 6, 2020 Randy Coleman-Riese

Recently Patrick Coffin released on YouTube and his website an interview with Gil Bailie recorded in the Fall of 2019....

12Jul

July 12, 2019 Randy Coleman-Riese

The Colloquium on Violence and Religion’s 2019 conference is winding up what seems to have recently become its annual attempt...

12Nov

November 12, 2018 Randy Coleman-Riese

The journal First Things has recently featured on its website a short essay by Peter J. Leithart entitled ‘Clashing Victimocracies!’ ...