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O Light Exalted
Dante’s understanding of the heavens—as spheres rotating around the Earth—has been out of date astronomically for nearly half a millennium. Dante’s political world consisted of a score of perpetually...
Saint and Scribe
Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul IIby george weigelbasic, 368 pages, $32 Czesław Miłosz once said that, in terms of moral grandeur and personal presence,...
Out of a Dark Wood
How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem by rod dreher regan, 320 pages, $29.95 In 2011, Rod Dreher returns to his hometown...
Camus Between God and Nothing
I happened to be in Paris several years ago on the evening they were giving out the Césars, the French equivalent of the Oscars. Early the next morning, I...
France’s Surprising Resistance to Gay Marriage
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Chastened Humanism
You cannot help but like a serious thinker who demolishes the pretensions of various fashionable currents of thought, starting with the 1968 French student rebellion, by pointing out the...
Problems with (Some) Catholic Social Thought
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The China Syndrome
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A Spanish Lesson
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Sarkozy and Secularism
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Expiating Our Eco-Sins?
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Remembrance of Deaths Past ¯ and Present
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Sacra Roma
The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles Viking Adult, 496 pages, $40 We do not read Virgil much anymore. In part, because we no longer learn Latin and...
The Waning of the Renaissance, ca. 1550–1640
In the usual historiography, the development of the West, like Caesar’s Gaul, is divided into three parts. The Greeks and their successors in Rome lie at the beginning of...
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
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