David Schaengold

If Chartres belongs more to later centuries—to Henry Adams and Huysmans and the innumerable converts it has made—than to its own time, why repaint it? Continue Reading »

Treating G.K. Chesterton as an authority whose aphorisms can be quoted for any purpose other than amusement is, as  Elliot Milco maintains , silly. One might as well treat Edward Lear as an authority. (Though an exception should be made for literary matters, an area where he wrote with . . . . Continue Reading »

New art works animated by sincere piety are rare in the United States. Still rarer are voices that do not see Islam as a minority protected from oppression or a dangerous threat to American liberty, but instead as a moral-theological system whose insights are relevant to contemporary domestic life. It’s unsurprising, then, that despite the critical adulation received by Ashgar Farhadi’s new film, A Separation, its reviewers seem to have missed that the film is work of sincere religious conviction… . Continue Reading »