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Christopher Shannon

Christopher Shannon is associate professor of history at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He is the author of several works on U.S. cultural history and American Catholic history, including American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World (2022), available from Ignatius Press.

PREVIEW: Singing from the Heart

Christopher Shannon   |  March 14, 2025

What happens when musicians set their sights on home?

State, Market, Speech

Christopher Shannon   |  January 30, 2025

TikTok ticks right along

Blasphemies

Christopher Shannon   |  October 23, 2024

Measuring society by its conversation stoppers

LONG FORM: Whose Culture? Which Solidarity?

Christopher Shannon   |  September 9, 2024

Further reflections on James Davison Hunter’s ‘Democracy and Solidarity’

REVIEW: Still the Jeremiad

Christopher Shannon   |  August 13, 2024

James Davison Hunter turns to ‘culture’ for hope. Can it deliver?

LONG FORM: It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City

Christopher Shannon   |  June 19, 2024

Springsteen’s Catholic localism permeates his music in winsome ways

REVIEW: The Liberal Jeremiad

Christopher Shannon   |  May 29, 2024

What is the basis of Samuel Moyn’s hope?

FORUM: Christopher Lasch (I)

Catherine Tumber and Christopher Shannon   |  February 14, 2024

Thirty years after Lasch’s death, how should we remember him?

Purity of Arms 

Christopher Shannon   |  January 12, 2024

The war in the Holy Land only intensifies the priority of justice

REVIEW: Commentary? Or Contempt?

Christopher Shannon   |  November 9, 2023

Toward a better ecology of news

REVIEW: Searching for Solidarity

Christopher Shannon   |  August 1, 2023

Weigel’s sharp vision begins to fail when he turns to the United States

Separation Anxiety

Christopher Shannon   |  June 15, 2023

On the matter of public schooling, David French mistakes state authority for religious liberty

Happy Anniversary?

Christopher Shannon   |  April 14, 2023

Renewal begins with the parish—not the pope

Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

Christopher Shannon   |  March 10, 2023

In The Banshees of Inisherin, Hollywood and serious film make their acquaintance once more

Two Popes

Christopher Shannon   |  January 5, 2023

Contrary to his critics’ claims, Benedict embodied the promise of Vatican II

FORUM: Post-Liberal America

Christopher Shannon   |  December 12, 2022

Liberalism as an ideal is one thing. Liberalism in history is another.

Ross Douthat’s Vatican II Blues

Christopher Shannon   |  December 2, 2022

More institutional suspicion is not what American Catholics need

REVIEW: Pomo Prez

Christopher Shannon   |  November 7, 2022

Narcissism really isn’t that complicated. But its effects are.

REVIEW: A Winner’s History of the Catholic Church

Christopher Shannon   |  October 28, 2022

John McGreevy’s story calls into question the future of the Church itself

REVIEW: After Philosophy

Christopher Shannon   |  September 23, 2022

Alasdair MacIntyre exposed the failings of the liberal tradition. Do we dare remember?

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