American Politics
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Beyond Amazonia
The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia [Dear Amazonia] did not accept or endorse the 2019 Amazonian synod’s…
A Striking State of the Union Address
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, R. R.…
The Myth of Medieval Paganism
They don’t look very Christian—those strange faces made of leaves, and those women displaying cartoonishly enlarged genitals…
Letters
Protestant Theology I don’t suppose it will be easy for Carl Trueman (“Turning Inward,” December 2019) and…
The World Turned Upside Down
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the Worldby tom holland basic, 624 pages, $32 After the Second…
An Affair of Things
Philip Larkin’s poem “Church Going” depicts his experience when, out for a ride on his bicycle, he…
Oppression by Indifference
Almost all Western democracies other than the United States provide public support to parents who wish to…
New York Remembers Fr. Neuhaus
Last week, New Yorkers might have glimpsed this Fr. Richard John Neuhaus quote displayed on the LinkNYC…
The Nondiscrimination Dance
Last month, eighth-grade students at Notre Dame Academy (a Catholic school in Toledo, Ohio) took a field…
How Christianity Changed Singleness
The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman Worldnedited by sabine r. huebner and christian laesnncambridge,…
Puritanism Then and Now
The Puritans: A Transatlantic Historynby david d. hallnnprinceton, 520 pages, $35 When Greta Thunberg, the teenage Green…
The Unreasonable Man
Churchill: Walking With Destinynby andrew robertsnnviking, 1152 pages, $40 Speaking to his friend Frederick Lindemann in the…
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…
