Mr. Byrne, best known as the dynamic frontman of the 1980s art-rock outfit Talking Heads, is a kind of besuited Renaissance man.

The technological changes Guardini witnessed during his lifetime (1885-1968) were far more dramatic, jarring and violent than anything we are likely to see in our own era. Yet the deeper I go into his writings, the more convinced I become of their urgency and relevance in the here and now.

Abstraction is fundamentally inhuman, even anti-human.

In ‘Wings of Desire,’ Damiel is tired of pretense, tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit.

“I was very much introduced to the Catholic world through Buckley,” David Brooks says about William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review and one of the leading intellectuals of the conservative movement in the United States beginning in the mid-1950s.

The long pilgrimage of David Brooks has led him to explore Christianity and embrace a life lived in tension.