B. D. McClay

The Right to Be Wrong
Ryan T. Anderson, Public Discourse

Ground Down to Molasses
Dave Byrne, Boston Review

Odysseus: Patron Hero of the Liberal Arts
Eva Brann, The Imaginative Conservative

Generations and Repetitions
Joshua Clover, The Nation

The Conservative Case for Unions After the Harris v. Quinn Decision
James Poulos, The Daily Beast

Praying for Radiation
Ashley Makar, Whether Magazine

Reading Lessons of a Religious Upbringing Without Modern Books
Sarah Perry, Guardian

Part Sendup, Part Anxious Self-Portrait: “Friendship” And The New Brooklyn Novel
Lydia Kiesling, Salon

Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas?
Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times

The Sacred Power of the World
Stephen D. Blackmer, The New Atlantis

Opera is Not Just Our Most Expensive Noise
Roger Scruton, Standpoint

Belted, Booted and Buckled: B-Movie Title Design of the 1960s
Ben Radatz, Art of the Title

Explaining Canada to Americans
Alexandra Molotkow, Hazlitt

Mystery and Manners: On Teaching Flannery O’Connor
Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions

Losing Music
John Cotter, Open Letters Monthly

Opinion: Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Opinion Analysis: Does the New Religious Exemption Go Far Enough?
Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog

The Republic of Gilead is Not Nigh
Julian Sanchez, Cato

How the Internet Blamed the Wrong Twitter Handle for Today’s Hobby Lobby Ruling
Jamie Fuller, Washington Post

The Hobby Lobby Decision Was a Victory for Women’s Rights
Andrew Koppelman, The New Republic

A century later, why does Chaplin still matter?
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

Faking Galileo
Massimo Mazzotti, Los Angeles Review of Books

American Idol
James T. Keane, America

Consider the Squirrel
Jamie Allen, Oxford American

E.B.
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

Gifts of $300 to Homeless Are Reduced to a Lunch
Kirk Semple, The New York Times

Lost Causes
Jesse Dukes, Virginia Quarterly Review

Nun with colorful history, New Mexico ties nominated for sainthood
Anne Constable, Santa Fe New Mexican

The Supreme Court Strikes Down Massachusetts’s Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Law
Abby Ohlheiser, The Wire

Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Nautilus

I went undercover to find out why people do CrossFit
Nico Lang, The Daily Dot

Grace Happens
Aaron Canipe, The Morning News

The Lost Days of El Texano
Katy Vine, Texas Monthly

If A Jewish Girl Falls Into The East River
Cameron Dezen Hammon, Killing the Buddha

AP: Parts Of Irish ‘Mass Graves’ Story Exaggerated By Media
Scott Neuman, NPR

My Train-Hopping Odyssey Through the American West
Ted Conover, Outside

Sleazy, Bloody and Surprisingly Smart: In Defense of True Crime
Laura Miller, Salon

Vatican Cricket Team to Go Head-to-Head with Anglican Rivals on UK Tour
John Hooper, The Guardian

The Vanishing Jews of Antiquity
Adele Reinhartz, Marginalia

Sundance’s Rectify, Perhaps the Most Quiet Drama on TV, Is Truly Christian Art
Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture

Nepal’s living goddess who still has to do homework
Sonia Narang, BBC News

For Muslims, Howard Gordon’s ‘Tyrant’ Is a Step in the Right Direction
Dean Obeidallah, Daily Beast

And Gladly Learn
Abigail Lavin, The Weekly Standard

James Joyce’s Untamable Power
James Longenbach, The Nation

Rebellion Vs. Conformity in ‘We Are the Best!’
Eve Tushnet, The American Spectator

Looks Like Kafka, Plays Like A Dream
Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Republic

Their Blood Cries Out
Mark Noll, Books & Culture

Iraqi Christians Flee Homes Amid Militant Push
Diaa Hadid, ABC News

Fortune’s Child
Lewis H. Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly

The Leopard
James Meek, London Review of Books