American Politics

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Audrey Pollnow

The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialismby ryan darruniversity of chicago, 320 pages, $35 When I…

Nourishing Mystery

John Schwenkler

The Eucharist in Modern Philosophyby xavier tilliette, translated by jonathan martin ciraulocatholic university of america, 200 pages,…

The Ends of the Earth

Richard Tillinghast

The wind shears through hardwoods, then rain brings down the leaves here, eight thousand miles east of…

Milton’s Apple and Ours

Mark Edmundson

Why did Eve bite the apple? Milton puts this question at the center of Paradise Lost, the greatest…

Abundance

Sarah Rossiter

Clear water on a Catskill stream spills, flowing down a smooth rock face into a pool shaped…

Letters – April 2024

Various

Rossetti’s Art Living within a stone’s throw of the nation’s leading collection of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art housed…

Why the Left Won’t Condemn the October 7 Rapes

Kari Jenson Gold

In 2015, Columbia University was in an uproar over Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which was, at the time, required…

Modern Martyrs of Communism

Salvatore J. Cordileone

Bianca Jagger just issued a thundering warning about Nicaragua’s human rights abuses: “Just like the Castro Regime…

Leave Them Kids Alone

Julia Yost

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by abigail shrier sentinel, 320 pages, $30 Is there…

Letters

Various

Biblical Themes For a magazine devoted to religion and public life, the piece by R. R. Reno…

Homer’s Reach

Randy Boyagoda

Homer and His Iliad by robin lane fox basic books, 464 pages, $32.50 The Iliad by homer,…

Reclaiming a Culture of Life in Health Care

Louis Brown Jr.

A faithful and inspiring Catholic man was battling cancer earlier this year. Looking for hospice care, he…

Punished for Getting Married

Leah Libresco Sargeant

In traditional marriage vows, husband and wife promise to care for each other “in sickness and in…

Love Among the Ashes

Brian A. Graebe

February 14 this year brings the rare convergence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. Rarer still is…

Hegel Vindicated

David P. Goldman

Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by klaus vieweg stanford university, 488 pages, $40 Klaus Vieweg’s eight-hundred-page biography of…