Resurrection Joy
Br. John Sica, O.P., Dominicana
Photos of the Day
Darrin Zammit Reuters, The Wall Street Journal
The Truth is Hard: An Interview with Roger Scruton
Douglas Murray, The Spectator
Petition
Traci Brimhall, Poetry Magazine
Given what happened in Indiana last week, what steps might we take? Here are some suggestions: Continue Reading »
Long after Indiana's RFRA crisis is past, the changes in our political culture which it has revealed will continue to have consequences for religious conservatives. Continue Reading »
Long before we learned to love, we learned to lose; this is an education the world offers free of charge. As children, we first mourned the roses in October, the neighbor’s night-blooming cactus when we left for school, the rotting tree wrung out by lightning. (Once, at four, I stooped down to . . . . Continue Reading »
A fictionalized note from a Christian baker:To our dear and beloved customers, Creator Cakes has served this community for over two decades. That we run our business in accordance with our Christian faith is well known in the community. We've grown very concerned over the last week's events that saw . . . . Continue Reading »
79 Theses on Technology, for Disputation
Chad Wellmon, The Hedgehog Review
Religious Liberty and Equality
David Brooks, The New York Times
Tintern Abbey
Anthony Daniels, The New Criterion
The End of College? Not So Fast
Donald E. Heller, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Who if anyone will courageously stand up to the mob? Who will resist? Continue Reading »
A Preview of Vol. 34: “Sailmaker's Palm”
Ansel Elkins, Parnassus
The Herod Procedure: After Birth Abortion Arrives
Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator
‘I Would Prefer Not To': The Origins of the White Collar Worker
Nikil Saval, Longreads
Poetry & Truth
David Yezzi, The New Criterion
As I expected, the leaders of the Catholic Church have done everything they can to avoid saying anything in response to the furor over the Indiana RFRA. Their counsel is “dialogue,” an unfortunate weasel word long used by administrators who don't want to take a stand. Continue Reading »
On the basis of distortions, mistakes, and uncertain predictions, we seem ready to abandon a foundational principle that exists, not only in American law, but in legal systems across the world. Continue Reading »
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