Hope you’re enjoying your long weekend (if you have one). I’ve been spending my own long weekend on very important business, such as catching up on The Good Wife , so I hope that everybody else has been spending their time equally well. And here’s some Monday reading for you.
At Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos talks about the media .
Peter Leithart is as thoughtfully prolific as ever, so here are some highlights: Karl Barth , Annie Dillard , and Dante .
Dr. Boli on manners and capitalism .
And finally, William Doino defends Pope Francis, and R. J. Snell is lonely .
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…