American Politics
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All Bright Things
At Chartres, we see the stained glass windows slumpfrom centuries of gravity, becomingthicker glass at bottom than…
Breakfield Road
(for Jake, 1989-2005) The briar draws a perfect bead of bloodto tender flesh as my dog pulls…
Kilmainham Gaol
We stand in crooked lines outside the gate,Where my new bride and I map out our day,As…
Epiphany
He tells himself a tale his grandmother told:Babuschka sleeps by the fire. Outside new snowLaps the window.…
Seizing the Crown of Thorns
As we watch the mostly white officials of the Democratic party pander to black Americans with talk…
Shrouded in Darkness
Complaints that public discourse is becoming more polarized and poisonous are generally unconvincing. With the exception of…
Why Rise of Skywalker Fails
Amongst Dickens’s many perfectly named characters, Thomas Gradgrind may be one of the most horrifying. Gradgrind, a…
Bitterness and Hope at Chanukah
A column about Jewish things. Chanukah is Judaism at its least demanding and most comfortable. We light…
The World Will Whimper
Catholic Ireland has fallen. Some vague, residual piety may stay the hand of the Irish from completely…
The Ecstasy of the Mob
In his review of the 1946 French film Panique, critic Bilge Ebiri observes that mob behavior is…
The Case For Keeping Trump
Should the Senate remove President Trump from office? Mark Galli, editor of Christianity Today, says “yes!” He…
Evangelical Elites Are Out of Touch
Some years ago I wrote a short book in which I argued that, while political thinking was…
A Hidden Life: The Story of a Marriage
I thought we could build our nest high up in the trees.” We hear the voice of…
Learning for Liberty
It’s college application season. From my window, I can see thoughtful families walking across the quad, following…
Our Integral Regime
Maya Forstater’s ordeal will outrage you. Since January 2015, the 45-year-old British tax expert had served as…
