Arts & Letters
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Song of Thanksgiving
On the cover of Nicholas Chong’s new book, The Catholic Beethoven, the skies are blue. That in…
Books and Baseball
Several weeks ago, in sync with the start of Major League Baseball’s 2025 season, the University of…
A Classical Insurgency
Why learn Latin? And by what means? Many professional classicists have no convincing answer to either question.…
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
For an English Teacher
You died, but it was not your words that faltered. You’d husbanded the language all your life, And when…
While We’re At It
H. Richard Niebuhr taught at Yale Divinity School for many decades. In 1953, he made the following…
Briefly Noted
A Grand Slam for God:A Journey from Baseball Star to Catholic Priestby burke masterword on fire, 192…
Letters—May 2025
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…
What We’ve Been Reading—March
Virginia Aabram I’m reading two books this Lent, the first of which is a reminder of what…
The Rise and Fall of Urban Frump
In 2021 a friend sent me a video of a bizarre fashion show. The models paraded through…
How Disney Killed Snow White
Disney’s live action version of Snow White, a spectacular flop at the box office, continues to get…
Snow What?
The editors discuss the live-action Snow White, Disney’s biggest flop in recent memory. Did the star hijack…
Faith in the Modern Age: New and Notable Books
Lots of new books are documenting the difficulties of faith at the present time, as well as…
Omnis in Scripturas
Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his…
