Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Word by Word
Before I formed you in the womb, my son, I knew you. Knew you long before that…
How to Revolt
Earlier this year, a Seattle-based journalist named Tariq Ra’ouf took to social media to explain the logic…
Friedman’s Rise and Fall
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by jennifer burns farrar, straus and giroux, 592 pages, $35 Anyone who lived…
The Truth About Alabama’s Ruling on IVF
During the George W. Bush administration, Americans were repeatedly warned about Christian fascists or theocrats threatening to…
“Gendered” Nonsense Is Dangerous Nonsense
Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state from 1949 until 1953, is buried in Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery.…
Desecration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
The controversy surrounding the recent funeral for Cecilia Gentili at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York has…
Hedgehogs, Foxes, and Other Thinkers
Years ago, I spent a month with my family in Burundi. I had once worked there when…
The Age of the Listicle
I am having fun with columns that are “lists,” which I have relished ever since I was…
C. S. Lewis, Eamon Duffy, and the Medieval Spirit
It is sixty years since the posthumous publication of The Discarded Image by C. S. Lewis. (Its…
Art Needs Faith
Tis the season of “The Artist”: On screen, in print, and on stage, the man of the…
Ireland Drained of Religion
Prophet Songby paul lynchoneworld, 320 pages, $30.28 In the U.K. and Ireland, no literary award is greeted…
Not Good To Be Alone
It is not good for a man to be alone. It wasn’t good for Adam, and it’s…
Søren
He is a churchyard. In his grasses, crosses Have blossomed once again, like quartered roses That know…
Pagan Hamas
Addressing senior SS officers in Poznań on October 4, 1943, Heinrich Himmler was in a cheerful mood.…
Anglicanism at a Crossroads
Orthodox Anglicans have something to cheer in this otherwise dismal year. On Ash Wednesday 2023, Anglican leaders…
