It’s Thursday! Here’s what we have for you to read today:
Over at Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott wants to clean house and Pete Spiliakos wants to qualify certain praises of Mike Lee.
Peter Leithart on the body and the soul: the ear , the bones , and hunger (more here ).
Here at First Thoughts , Greg Forster disdains Steven Pinker, Matthew Block looks at Lutheran–Catholic dialogue , and Dale M. Coulter looks at the (perhaps more surprising) Pentecostal–Orthodox dialogue .
And On the Square today, Russell E. Saltzman thinks we can learn from ancient astronauts (and Trekkies).
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…