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Books for Christmas 2023

George Weigel

Advent-2023 is as short as Advent can be, so this annual column on Christmas gift books that…

Indi Gregory and the Future of Death on Demand

Thomas M. Ward

Italian actress Sibilla Barbieri recently left her native land in order to leave this world in Switzerland.…

Fight Together, Win Together

Liel Leibovitz

On Saturday, October 7, a band of Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border and crossed into…

A Tragic Bent

Glenn C. Arbery

Fragile Objects: Short Stories by katy carl wiseblood books, 318 pages, $15 In her collection of engaging…

A Day in the Life of a Columnist

John Wilson

Writing a column is a strange, many-sided enterprise. It is, first and foremost, a privilege: to be…

Protestants Need to Go Back to Basics

Carl R. Trueman

Last Monday I had the pleasure of delivering the opening lecture for the newly-founded Center for Classical…

On Moral Diffidence and Scarlet Letters

Eugene Korn

As someone who worked for decades toward the reconciliation of Christians and Jews, I am deeply disquieted…

In Support of Jimmy Lai

George Weigel

As chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, John Lee is the principal enforcer of…

Classical Education Is Not a Right-Wing Project

James Hankins

Recently a book of mine underwent a perplexing treatment in the New York Review of Books. Normally…

The Grave Sin of Jew-Hatred

George Weigel

Shortly after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, I noted in this column and elsewhere that the…

Calling Western Civilization to Its Senses

John Duggan

The venue for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, held Oct. 30–Nov. 1 in…

A Prodigal

John Poch

. . . If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. —Psalm 139: 8…

Catholics Against Anti-Semitism

Mary Eberstadt

On October 7, the terrorist organization Hamas decided to follow the Nazi playbook once more. As one…

The Songbook of the New Christian Right

Peter J. Leithart

From the beginning, the biblical Psalter has been the church’s main hymnal. Christians in the Book of…

I Bought A Haunted Bookshop

John Byron Kuhner

If you are ever in Steubenville, Ohio, that plucky burg of seedy steel mills and fresh-faced Catholic…