René Girard, one of the most influential Catholic philosophers in the world, died last week at the age of 91. Born in Avignon and a member of the illustrious Academie Francaise, Girard nevertheless ...

For some time now, theologians have been more than somewhat reserved regarding the oeuvre of René Girard. On the whole, they have often been tempted to either neglect or hastily dismiss his work on ...

In Laurel and Hardy's "Big Business," two door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen fight a bad-tempered homeowner. The manic tit-for-tat escalates from head banging to a demolished house and an exploded ...

René Girard, a French scholar best known for his work on desire, violence, and religion, died November 4 at age 91. Girard immigrated to the United States in 1950, teaching social science at several ...

I have begun reading Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World, a book-length interview (conducted by two psychiatrists) with the late philospher René Girard. Here’s what Peter Thiel told an ...

If you want to understand what happened to the Covington Catholic boys at the Lincoln Memorial — and why things like this will continue to happen — you should read the late cultural critic and ...

The French social theorist Rene Girard, who died in 2015, was what Isaiah Berlin called a hedgehog: a thinker who knows “one big thing.” That big thing was “mimesis,” or imitation; more specifically, ...