Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
On the Edge of America
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Michael Anton joins…
What JD Vance Found in the Church
In the sixth book of his Confessions, St. Augustine relates a story about an encounter he had…
Jonathan Swift’s Savage Indignation
Miranda: “O wonder! . . . / O brave new world / That has such people in’t!”Prospero:…
Last Call for Submissions to the First Things Poetry Prize
The third annual First Things Poetry Prize is open for submissions until June 30. James Matthew Wilson is this year’s outside…
Suffering Bereft of Despair
One of the most moving portraits of human faith and endurance I know spilled from the quill…
The World That Spielberg Made
It’s a cliché to say that Steven Spielberg played an essential role in my life, partly because…
Nigel Biggar’s Thick Red Line
The New Dark Age:Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Warsby nigel biggarpolity, 192 pages, $25 Professor Nigel…
Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
Iwasn’t supposed to like Yesteryear, which is why I was surprised, and a little embarrassed, to discover…
Creating an American Mythos
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Matthew Mehan joins…
How to Belong Without Losing Oneself
Whenever someone like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes posts “ragebait,” it’s not difficult to predict how my…
Can These Bones Live?
The Saturday after Easter, on a cloudless morning, I fell and shattered my left elbow while taking…
Paul Celan’s Via Negativa
In the twentieth century the messengers shot themselves. Most did so metaphorically, of course, though a few…
Kabbalah and the Future (ft. Roger Simon)
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Roger L. Simon…
The Michael Connelly Literary Universe
If you are a longtime reader of this column, you know of my frustration with the routine…
C. S. Lewis’s Philosophy of Gender
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve:C. S. Lewis’s Images of Genderby joshua phillip herring234 pages, davenant press,…
