Editors

The Rise of Victimhood Culture
Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic

Art Across the Early Abrahamic Religions
Robert Gregg, OUPblog

There Is No Theory of Everything
Simon Critchley, New York Times

Jesus was a Refugee
K. Albert Little, Patheos

What Your Pastor's Jeans Say About Their Theology
Jesse Carey, Relevant

Why Conservatives Should Read Marx
Johnny Thakkar, The Point

Lambeth's Benedict Option
Sarah Puryear, Living Church

Is The Pope a Socialist?
William Droel, Patheos

How Achilles Can Help Us Understand Donald Trump
Charlotte Hays, Acculturated

Isn't it Ironic? Grace in the Wages of Sin
Kent Lasnoski, Dappled Things

Over Labor Day weekend I sat down with two books by Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History and Christian Human Rights. Both recount the emergence of human rights as a distinctive moral and political idea in the twentieth century. 

Looking for Calvin Coolidge
Gracy Olmstead, American Conservative

The End of History
Ernest B. Furgurson, American Scholar

Top Ten Books that Aren’t on Most “Great Books” Lists
David J. Davis, Reflection and Choice

Love, Faith, and Devotion: The Inspiration of Frances Chesterton
Nancy Carpentier Brown, Catholic Exchange

Why You Hate Google's New Logo
Sarah Larson, New Yorker

How J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Revived Modern Myth-Making
James Parker, Atlantic

Can Shakespeare Heal? One Director’s Quest to Help Treat PTSD
Madaline Donnelly, Daily Signal

The Beguine Model for the Benedict Option
Leah Libresco, Patheos

Is Lying Ever Justified?
Christopher Kaczor, Public Discourse

Every Southern Gothic Novel Ever
Mallory Ortberg, Toast

Mark your calendars for a lecture series in Washington, D.C. and a colloquium in Norcia, Italy.

Film Review: ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’
Alissa Simon, Variety

While Europe Braces for Massive Muslim Influx, Swedish City Hosts Middle Eastern Christians
John Burger, Aleteia

Liberty's Charter
Jeremy Black, The New Criterion

The Shapeliness of the World
Margaret Wertheim, Washington Post

Kanye West Announces Bid for Papacy
Editors, Eye of the Tiber

Catholics Who Disagree with the Vatican think the Church Will Change
Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight

‘Hypocrite,' the All-Purpose Political Insult
Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal

Variant Readings
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement

Kim Davis: Political Prisoner? Culture-War Martyr?
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative

Taylor Swift: A Socratic Dialogue
Jared Smith, McSweeney's

I just finished Malcolm Muggeridge's Chronicles of Wasted Time, an autobiographical tour de force. Muggeridge was born into a democratic socialist family and married the niece of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Leftist royalty in early twentieth-century England.

Inside a Cloistered Monastery: Joy and Love
David Gonzales, New York Times

The Centenary of the Silmarillion: Celebrating Two Tolkiens
Bradley J. Birzer, Imaginative Conservative

On the Pleasures of Not Reading
Dan Piepenbring, Paris Review

The Politics of Star Trek
Timothy Sandefur, Claremont Institute

Workplaces Make Terrible Monasteries
Leah Libresco, Patheos