Happy Tuesday! Here’s what we have for you today:
Maureen Mullarkey promotes a Christmas quiz .
Peter Leithart is reading about: the desire for glory, the Ukraine , political judgments , Augustine and just war , Starcraft , violence , and the dance of history .
Dr. Boli is running a caption contest .
Here at First Thoughts , we have the results of a (different) Christmas poll, a few thoughts on the devil, a look at the rise of religious populism , and a look at the shape of evil .
And On the Square today, Elizabeth Scalia has a story about a shepherd , while John Murdock remembers A Charlie Brown Christmas .
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…