American Politics

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The Being of God

Rowan Williams

The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God by thomas joseph white catholic university…

Briefly Noted — 10/22

Various

Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barthby stanley hauerwasuniversity of virginia, 218 pages, $29.50 At a…

Cannabusiness Goes to Pot

Nate Hochman

Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics by robin goldstein and daniel sumner university…

The Ghost

Margaret Bethray

The decision not to have a third child,made so soon after the birth of our second,launched us…

Embracing Pro-Family Economics

Jon Schweppe

In June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned lawmaking authority over abortion to the…

The People of the Bookstore

Jeff Deutsch

My received tradition, Orthodox Judaism, identifies its faithful as the “people of the book.” After years of…

Queen Elizabeth, Servant of God

Rowan Williams

In one of the inevitable rounds of media interviews in the days following Queen Elizabeth’s death last…

Shadi Hamid on Islamism in Modernity

R. R. Reno

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Shadi Hamid to talk about his article “How Modernity Swallowed Islamism”…

Europe Was Born in Pilgrimage

Itxu Díaz

Sometimes we are so busy reporting on the moral decline of Europe that more encouraging news goes…

Prone to Wander

Dustin Messer

Just as the human condition cannot be understood apart from the categories of guilt and grace, it…

Fiction and Friendship

John Wilson

Here are some recently published books: Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden…

On Synods Then and Now

Francis X. Maier

On July 29, La Civiltà Cattolica published an interview with Pope Francis that warrants a careful reading.…

The Stories of the Pro-Life Cause

Carl R. Trueman

Tearing Us Apart:How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothingby ryan t. anderson and alexandra desanctisregnery, 256 pages,…

Melancholic Verses

Randy Boyagoda

Run and Hideby pankaj mishrafarrar, straus and giroux, 336 pages, $27 Twenty years ­after publishing his first…

The Hypocrisy of Masks

Gilbert Meilaender

No, not the masks you assume I have in mind, the masks that have become such a…