Matthew Cantirino

How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor? by james k. a. smith? eerdmans, 160 pages, $16 In the seven years since its release, Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age has entered a particular category of books: frequently referenced, less frequently read. Conference speakers note its . . . . Continue Reading »

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Flimsiest Exposé of the Year
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How Husserl Changed Catholic Attitudes on Judaism
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Smerdyakov and Putin
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The Little Prince Made Horrific
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Rollin’ Coal and the Empire of Desire
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Fleeing the Coasts for “Cleveland”
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You Can’t Have a Culture of Life If You Have No Culture
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Gaza, Ukraine, and the Limits of International Law
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’90s Nostalgia and the Future
James Wolcott, Vanity Fair

The Way, It’s True, Is a Life
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Inequality and the Middlebrow
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The Bedouin of St. Katherine
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Seeing Israel Through Biblical Eyes
Beth Kissileff & Marilynne Robinson, Jewish Daily Forward

Amtrak Doesn’t Need a Writer’s Residency
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Born to Trouble
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Folks, It’s Torture
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Adderall and Virtue
Jonathan Liedl, Ethika Politika

Plans for a More Restrained Sign of Peace
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The Poetry of World War I
Poetry Foundation

The Road to the Holy Mountain
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Is This Sports Column Elite?
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What We’re Really Saying
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Welfare Economics: Liberalism, “Preference,” and “Science”
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The Legend of Saint Progressa
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Does Universalism Create a World Without Consequences?
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Restoring Religious Liberty, Reviving Political Liberty
James Stoner, Library of Law & Liberty

What Happened to You, Richard Dawkins?
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Everyone’s a “Nerd”
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Letter: Graham Greene to Evelyn Waugh
American Reader

My Church Loyalties, Or: Why I Don’t Convert
D. Stephen Long, Christian Century

Can the Caliphate Last?
Charlie Cooper, Daily Beast

The Art and Ethics of Attention
Thomas Pfau, Hedgehog Review

There Is Nothing Modern About Euthanasia
Helen Andrews, Center for Independent Studies

Heaven and Hell in Campania
Lincoln Allison, Standpoint

Conscience and the Law: A Bumpy Ride
Hadley Arkes, Catholic Thing

More Engaging Copy for the Ten Commandments
David Tate, McSweeney’s

Last Meal at Whole Foods
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker

I Am Not “Trapped in a Bubble of Privilege”
Andrew Giambrone, New Republic

How We Create Traditions with Dubious Origins
Casey N. Cep, Pacific Standard

From Super to Nuts
James Bowman, Arma Virumque

Is Competent Authoritarianism Too Much to Ask For?
John Michael McGrath, Hazlitt

Cohabitation: Moving In and Moving On
Scott Stanley, Family Studies

Against Cardinal Kasper
Ross Douthat, Evaluations

Dylan Thomas, the Anti-Eliot
Bevis Hillier, Weekly Standard