Arts & Letters

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Sounds of Kyoto

Andrew Lansdown

They intensify the courtyard’s evening chill, the dragon flutes, soaring with other woodwinds through variations...

Letters

I regret that Aaron Kheriaty’s very good analysis of the desiccated landscape of bioethics (“Zombie Bioethics,” October…

The Jewish Foundations of the West: New and Notable Books

Mark Bauerlein

In the introduction of Jewish Roots of American Liberty, a new collection of essays and documents edited…

Where Is the Antichrist? (ft. Peter Thiel)

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Peter Thiel joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recently…

The Inkling Who Fought Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

Earlier this autumn, I had the opportunity to visit Oxford the day before I delivered two lectures…

Christian Heroism

R. R. Reno

The heroic dimension of faith and discipleship was prominent in the early church. In his Life of…

Why Are Divorce Memoirs Trending?

Kerri Christopher

Divorce rates may be down in the U.S. from their all-time high in the 1980s (although so…

The Romanticism of Jean Raspail

Matthew Schmitz

One day, the French writer Jean Raspail looked out over the Mediterranean Sea and asked, “What if…

Beauty Rhymes with Death

Peter J. Leithart

Jan Zwicky is a Renaissance woman—a philosopher who has taught at Princeton and the University of Victoria,…

Midtown Art for a Midtown Cathedral

John Byron Kuhner

Last month, New York archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan unveiled a new painting for St. Patrick’s—the largest work…

Letters

I found Matthew Burdette’s analysis in “The Right to Be Killed” (August/September 2025) engaging. However, Burdette holds…

Briefly Noted

Our Lady of the Green Scapular charts a relay race of grace. The vision granted to Sr.…

Coleridge at Midnight 

Sally Thomas

He has been one acquainted with the darkAnd cold, the walks in rain across the hills,The vagaries…

Poetry vs. AI

Sam Buntz

As the purveyors of artificial intelligence attempt to replace literature with a deluge of slop, it is…

Power Fatigue and the Soft Womanhood of Taylor Swift

Bella M. Reyes

Whether you are a fan or foe of Taylor Swift, you cannot deny she is a titan…