Arts & Letters
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Fight Together, Win Together
On Saturday, October 7, a band of Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border and crossed into…
A Tragic Bent
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
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
Last Monday I had the pleasure of delivering the opening lecture for the newly-founded Center for Classical…
On Moral Diffidence and Scarlet Letters
As someone who worked for decades toward the reconciliation of Christians and Jews, I am deeply disquieted…
In Support of Jimmy Lai
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
Recently a book of mine underwent a perplexing treatment in the New York Review of Books. Normally…
The Grave Sin of Jew-Hatred
Shortly after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, I noted in this column and elsewhere that the…
Calling Western Civilization to Its Senses
The venue for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, held Oct. 30–Nov. 1 in…
A Prodigal
It takes a while for you to know what nought is. / You answer Thou shalt not…
Catholics Against Anti-Semitism
On October 7, the terrorist organization Hamas decided to follow the Nazi playbook once more. As one…
The Songbook of the New Christian Right
From the beginning, the biblical Psalter has been the church’s main hymnal. Christians in the Book of…
I Bought A Haunted Bookshop
If you are ever in Steubenville, Ohio, that plucky burg of seedy steel mills and fresh-faced Catholic…
The Synod on Synodality at the Halfway Point
The Synod on Synodality meeting this month is the first of a two-part synodal assembly; the second…
Letters From the Synod 2023: #11
INSIDE THE SYNOD: AN IMBALANCED ECCLESIAL ECOSYSTEM There are some 1,378,000,000 Catholics on Planet Earth today. They…
