Archive - Sean Berube

The Greatest Line of American Literature

How Three Words Capture the Restlessness of the Modern Soul

Oct 14 • Sean Berube

Why Did God Create Hell?

Dostoevsky, Human Freedom, and the Necessity of Hell

Oct 10 • Sean Berube

Don Quixote and the Death of Wonder

What a delusional knight can teach us about living in a disenchanted world

Oct 7 • Sean Berube

The Grace of the Grotesque

Flannery O’Connor and the Violence of Redemption

Oct 3 • Sean Berube

Moby Dick and Man’s War Against God

On Ahab, Obsession, and the Self-Destruction of Disordered Human Love

Oct 1 • Sean Berube

September 2026

Dostoevsky’s Positively Good Man

The problem of becoming Christ-like in a world of suffering and sin

Sep 26 • Sean Berube

Faust, the Devil, and Why Modern Life Feels Empty

Why Striving Alone Can’t Fill the Void in Your Soul

Sep 23 • Sean Berube

Abraham: The Biblical Builder of Dynasties

How faith, family, and sacrifice became the foundation of civilization

Sep 19 • Sean Berube

Why are we Ashamed to be Naked?

St. Augustine on shame, the fall, and the body

Sep 16 • Sean Berube

Can Beauty Save the World?

Dostoevsky on Beauty’s confrontation with suffering, death, and love

Sep 12 • Sean Berube

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Tolstoy on greed, material prosperity, and the nature of human flourishing

Sep 9 • Sean Berube

Why did God Demand Animal Sacrifice?

What the sacrifices of the Old Testament reveal about human nature

Sep 5 • Sean Berube

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