Arts & Letters

A selection of recent articles on this topic

“Among the Dangs”

John Wilson

On June 6, Sheila Liming, an assistant professor of literature at the University of North Dakota, tweeted…

The Man Who Stole the World

John Waters

When it comes to the great questions of existence, the real divide may be not between Christians…

Solzhenitsyn’s Prophecy

Robert P. George

Versions of these remarks were delivered this spring at the commencement ceremony for the Mount Academy of…

Thinking Under the Influence

John Wilson

You know you’re getting old when trimming your toenails becomes an ordeal. They don’t look as if…

The Lesser Angels of Our Nature

Joshua Hren

The lesser angels of our present dangerArraign the better angels of our natureAnd rearrange the stature of…

Return to St. Thomas

James Matthew Wilson

Here we are, with four children, at late Mass,   The nave a bloated hull of tin, the…

Humanities and Communities

Nathan Nielson

We communicate more today than at any time in history. Social media platforms, online fora, video chats,…

Shadow Show

Peter Wood

In the last fifty years, Artemisia Gentileschi has risen to new eminence. She originally gained fame among…

The View from Here Is Glory

Daniel Rattelle

This Our Exile by joshua hren angelico press, 142 pages, $18 What is “Catholic fiction”? Must it…

The Impermanence of Place

K. E. Colombini

When I was young, I had a recurring dream. I’d be walking home from grade school—it was…

Versions of Paul

John Wilson

The mostly Baptist congregations in which I grew up included only a handful of academically trained biblical…

The Cosmic Gamemaker

Kevin Jackson

Integrating God+Love+Lawby luis tellezwitherspoon, 80 pages, $12 In Integrating God+Love+Law, Luis Tellez urges readers, especially his target…

The Cloud of Unknowing

Thomas H. Bast

Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence,Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to shareIn some impossible benevolence,To care and…

The Way Of Love

David Condell

Don’t be afraid; and never yield to hate,whilst knowing love, appearing so pristine,contrasted to a thing as…

In For the Long Haul

John Wilson

I’m writing from San Antonio, Texas, where Wendy and I are visiting our daughter Mary, our son-in-law…