Arts & Letters
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What Patrick Deneen Still Gets Wrong
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We Were Made for Eternal Things
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Pat Robertson, Seer of Virginia Beach
When we think of the Religious Right, that phenomenon of the 1980s and ’90s, the person that…
History of the Emotions
As you know, I’m an inveterate reader of those proliferating lists touting new and forthcoming books (most…
The West Should Not Abandon Armenia
More than 120,000 Christian Armenians continue to face the threat of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno Karabakh, a…
The Vatican as Peacemaker in Ukraine?
A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s appointment as head of a Vatican “peace mission” to “help…
Social Media Robs Children of Childhood
There is a firm consensus in American culture today that smoking cigarettes around kids is bad. But…
Hope in an Age of Nay-Saying
I am the spirit that negates.” So Mephistopheles describes his calling to Faust in their first encounter…
The Lure of Orwell
Orwell:The New Lifeby d. j. taylorpegasus books, 608 pages, $39.95 Novelist, biographer, literary historian, wide-ranging and unfailingly…
What I Saw at NatCon U.K.
If you look around you,” one glum questioner remarked in the first Q and A, “this isn’t…
Transgression Is Passé
One of the hallmarks of the modern age has been the death of the sacred. Nietzsche’s Madman…
On Not Being Paralyzed by History (Or the Misunderstanding Thereof)
TRIGGER WARNING: The next few sentences will upset some of you. There is a case to be…
God at the Coronation
To the surprise of many (including myself), the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday was not…
The Ancient Royal Magic of the Coronation
Medieval,” “anachronistic,” “outdated,” “a magic hat ceremony.” These are just a few of the uncomplimentary terms that…
Briefly Noted — 5/23
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by aaron sachs princeton,…
