COVID-19 and The Ickabog

by Sarah Rindner

Intentionally or not, The Ickabog may be the most serious literary indictment of the mass response to the COVID-19 epidemic published to date. Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2021 0

Joe Biden Misreads Augustine

by C. C. Pecknold

Biden gives us a very limp Augustine who delivers only vague liberal pieties of “peace, peace.” Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2021 0

Antifascism Without Fascism

by Stanley G. Payne

In recent decades, one of the most popular terms of political abuse has been “fascist.” Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2021 0

Learning From Burke in 1968

by Timothy Jacobson

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2021 0

Archbishop José Gomez: A Profile In Episcopal Courage

by George Weigel

Archbishop Gomez’s statement was clearly a pastoral statement, not a political manifesto. Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2021 0

Canceling Culture

by Christopher Seitz

Cancel culture is not just a culture that cancels the past. It is a culture that cancels culture itself. Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2021 0

Clarity and Contempt

by John Wilson

If we can't be correct all the time, we can at least be clear. Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2021 0

President Biden and a Catholic Inflection Point

by George Weigel

Solidarity in prayer is the first duty of American Catholics toward the new president today. Continue Reading »

20 Jan 2021 0

What We've Been Reading—January 2021

by Editors

Our editors' recent musings on Glenn Arbery, Dana Gioia, Lauren Oyler, and Rumer Godden. Continue Reading »

19 Jan 2021 0

Race and Reconciliation

by Carl R. Trueman

Race and Covenant offers a discussion of race in America that acknowledges the very real scars of slavery and the ongoing problem of race along with proposals that seek a constructive way forward. Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2021 0