Editors

Contemplation of Beauty
Michael Rennier, Dappled Things

Encounters with the Posthuman
Sally Davies, Nautilus

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Cancels Planned Parenthood Contract in Wake of Videos
Stephan Dinan, The Washington Times

What is the State of the American Mind? A Conversation with Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein, Library of Law and Liberty

A New Planned Parenthood Video and More Outrage
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic

Dutch Offered ‘Euthanasia on Wheels'
Anna Holligan, BBC News

What is the Source of the Darkness of Our Times?
Msgr. Chalres Pope, National Catholic Register

Children's Song
Ronald Stuart Thomas, The Catholic Thing

Redeeming Word and Body
Fr. Paul Scalia, The Catholic Thing

The Long GOP Fight to Defund Planned Parenthood
Julie Rovner, The Atlantic

Summer Reading for All Seasons of the Year
Chase Padnusiak, Ethika Politika

Striving for Greatness
Br. John Paul Kern, O.P., Dominicana

I am in the first 50 page of Midcentury, a 1961 novel by John Dos Passos. Dos Passos (born 1896, died 1970) is largely forgotten today. He doesn't even appear much on syllabi in undergraduate American literature courses. There are two reasons for that. One is Dos Passos' politics. Like so many others, he started out as a writer on the left, in the 30s flirting with the Communist Party and joining Hemingway in Spain to help in the fight against the Fascists. The murderous conduct of Stalinists in Spain turned him off of communism, and further world events pushed him farther right during and after the war. The more he came to despise collectivism, even to the point of briefly supporting Joe McCarthy, the less the literary world favored him. The other reason Dos Passos has disappeared is literary. (Randy Boyogoda's essay in the current issue of First Things directly relates to this point.) His fiction comes out of an era in which the novel was a great carrier of history and ideas. Continue Reading »

Who Do Evangelical Insiders Favor in 2016?
J. C. Derrick, World

The Quiet Alarm
Andreas Elpidorou, Aeon

Telling Lies
Eva Brann, The Imaginative Conservative

In Defense of Prejudice, Sort of
Ari N. Schulman, The New Atlantis

Atlantic Journalist Thinks Religious Believers Belong in Straitjackets
David French, National Review

The Unknown Newton: A Symposium
New Atlantis

Rubio: Outrage Over Lion, but not Abortion?
Tom LoBianco, CNN

UNH President Offended by Bias-Free Language Guide
Holly Ramer, Associated Press

New events include a seminar on Long Island for priests in Catholic schools and a colloquium in Italy with Cardinal Burke on Vatican II and religious freedom. Continue Reading »

A Letter to My African-American Daughter, and a Response to Ta-Nehisi Coates
David French, National Review

Why Read Christopher Lasch?
Matthew Harwood, The American Conservative

Underworld: How the Sinaloa Drug Cartel Digs Its Tunnels
Monte Reel, The New Yorke

Fetal Heartbeat and the Judicial Imagination
Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

Looking Away From Abortion
Ross Douthat, New York Times

Richard Nixon's Culture War
Mark Judge, Real Clear Religion

Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion
John McWhorter, Daily Beast

Cecile Richards is Right
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

Dryads and Hamadryads
Matthew Walther, Washington Free Beacon

The Dominican Option and the Common Good
C. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika

The Flesh Made Word: Tattoos, Transgression, and the Modified Body
Christine Rosen, Hedgehog Review

What is the Role of Leo Strauss in Conservative Thought?
Peter Lawler, The Imaginative Conservative

Why do Westerners Join ISIS? 
Simon Cottee, The Atlantic