Arts & Letters
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Elegy for a Horseshoe Crab
Here on the sand lies crusty limulus, the stalwart crab of the marine Old Right. Untouched by any…
“Even Mother Nature Has An Agent”
Over the last fifteen years or so I have seen (and been moved by) many of the…
The Pieta of Joan of Arc
Fort Drum, home to the 10th Mountain Division and, until very recently, to my family, has recently…
Celibacy in the City
The day after the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage this summer, I was in line for the…
Re-styling Tradition
A new Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St. Thomas Aquinas, has risen at the Newman Center of…
Uber, But For Penance
Forgiveness 4 Youann bauer304 pages, overlook, $26.95 There’s something very modern, very grim about reading church reviews…
Statesmanship by Committee
The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final…
Praise Be to You, Lord
The First World War lingers in the memory as humanity’s first encounter with industrialized killing on a…
No Matter Where You Go . . .
She texts atop Mount Washingtonthen switches to her headphoneswhen she descends the gulches ofthe presidential deadzones. Her…
A Thicker Kind of Mere
I am an avid reader and an occasional contributor to the magazine Touchstone, a periodical that describes…
In Praise of Irrelevant Reading
When I moved to England to start a Masters degree in theology, I knew I wanted to…
Gethsemane
Gethsemane means “olive press.”A place where the fruit of the tree is crushed and squeezedand the unbearable…
The Vision of Father Neuhaus
In his insightful new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square, Randy Boyagoda recounts the…
Ubi Amor, Ibi Oculus
The following essay is adapted from remarks given at NYU’s Catholic Center as part of the Thomistic…
Harry V. Jaffa’s Call for Liberation
Perhaps the most heatedly denounced work of a distinguished scholar is Harry Jaffa’s occasional writing on homosexuality.…
