Editors

Conservatives Against Trump
NR Symposium, National Review

Defenders of the Unborn
Kristin Dombak, New York Times

A Truly Liberal Society Would Tolerate the Anglican Church’s Views on Sexuality
James Mumford, Spectator

Is Loyola University Losing Its Catholic Identity?
Christopher Kaczor, Catholic World Report

Is The Monomyth A Myth?
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things

Human Rights Law and the Erosion of Politics
Noel Malcolm, New Criterion

I March for Life Because I’m Haunted by Jessica Jones
Jason Scott Jones, Stream

How I Defeated the Tolkein Estate
Austin Gilkeson, Toast

BREAKING: Episcopal Church Suspended from Full Participation in Anglican Communion
Deacon Greg Kandra, Aleteia

The Brutalism of Ted Cruz
David Brooks, New York Times

There's Nothing Patriotic About William Blake's Jerusalem
Kate Maltby, Spectator

David Bowie: The Prettiest Star
Noah Millman, American Conservative

Alan Rickman: Even Better as a Romantic Lead
Megan Garber, Atlantic

Baltering
Ellen RM Toner, Dappled Things

Making Poetry Matter
Micah Mattix, City Journal

Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes
Kelsey Osgood, New Yorker

Application Information: Religious Freedom Project
Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

There is something quaint about the little paperback on my desk, a 1964 printing from the Fawcett World Library—originally priced at 50 cents. In the bottom right corner is the announcement, “16 short stories by the most talked about young writer in America.”

Who Came Down From the Stars? The Baby God, That's Who!
Roseanne T. Sullivan, Dappled Things

The Unhaunted Graveyard
Joseph Bottum, Washington Free Beacon

Who Speaks For Islam?
Editors, New Criterion

Did He Even Know He Was Shakespeare?
David Scott Kastan, Humanities

Are Small Families Better for Kids?
Simcha Fisher, Aleteia

Hamilton and the Romance of Government
Eve Tushnet, American Conservative

Advent, New Year's Eve, and the Long Defeat
Stephen Williams, Humane Pursuits

Oregon and the Injustice of Mandatory Minimums
Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic

Application Information: Religious Freedom Project
Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

The Little Way of Terry Pratchett
Leah Libresco, Aleteia

Michael Wyschogrod, Dean of Orthodox Jewish Theologians, Dies at 87
David P. Goldman, Tablet

Crisis of Character
Brendan O’Neill, spiked

A Medieval Antidote to ISIS
Mustafa Akyol, New York Times

A Preacher Without a Congregation
Peter Blair, The American Interest

Poetry of Propaganda: Act One, Guerilla Marketing
Ira Glass, This American Life
(transcript here)

A Design of Eternal Salvation
James V. Schall, S. J., The Catholic Thing

Holiday Despair and the Meaning of Christmas
Jennifer Fitz, Patheos

Application Information: Religious Freedom Project
Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

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The Wound of Beauty
Gregory Wolfe, Image

Modernity, Religion, and Morality
George Weigel, Yoram Hazony, Tikvah

Elijah and the Widow: An Advent Meditation
Richard Beck, Experimental Theology

San Francisco Values
Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books

Muslim Parents on How They Talk to Their Children About Hatred and Extremism
Hanna Ingber, New York Times

Towards Plural Marriage: Understanding and Countering the Liberal Wringer
Scott Yenor, Public Discourse

Economic Participation
Richard Aleman, Distributist Review

Krampus Resurgent
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things

Application Information: Religious Freedom Project
Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

C. S. Lewis Was a Secret Government Agent
Harry Lee Poe, Christianity Today

Preserving the City of Tomorrow
Steven W. Semes, New Criterion

Movable Feasts:
A Farmer-Philosopher Confounds Expectations about Islam and Outsiders in the South
Staff, Economist

Father Mourad: Defeating ISIS Within a Cell of Prayer
Arthur Herlin, Aleteia

Grace Notes
Rowan Williams, Literary Review

Medication Nation
Philip Alcabes, American Scholar

Charlotte Brontë’s Most Inexplicable Denominational Burns
Mallory Ortberg, Toast

The Alarming Summons of Advent
Laura Trimble, Humane Pursuits

Our contributor and next years' honoree for the Annual Poetry Reading, Dana Gioia, was just named California's Poet Laureate. Here's an illustration of why:Prayer at Winter SolsticeBlessed is the road that keeps us homeless. Blessed is the mountain that blocks our way.Blessed are hunger . . . . Continue Reading »