Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What We’ve Been Reading—Summer 2025
Upon reading my short stories, Jaspreet Singh Boparai urged me to read the French Decadents, especially J.…
The Heroism of Homeric Women
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Eirene S. Allen joins…
The Substance of Our Lives
While I was in college, the local priest got me to come along with him on his…
From Conclave to Catwalk
Secular culturistas continue to be fascinated by the Catholic Church—or at least by its external trappings. The…
The Summer Reading List, 2025 Edition
Some years ago, a friend teaching at a state university told me that he was offering a…
Waugh Against the Fogeys
On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to a friend: “I am now preparing a…
Math Is Erotic
The most shining moment of my education as a physics major at UC Santa Barbara came in…
Goodbye, Saffron
In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman wrote that the “people of the Middle…
The Best of Us Is Medieval
It has long been a custom among commentators that, when looking for a comparator that will blacken…
Forecast
How long can two people stay togetherwith this in the news and that in the sky? A…
Leavers, Yearners, and Returners
You could fill a small library with books from the last twenty years devoted to the erosion…
The Great Excommunicator
When Sam Tanenhaus agreed in 1998 to write a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., it would…
NovelCon
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Christopher J. Scalia joins…
Second Death
Between our physical demise—when the soul, like a savedpage from a trashed notebook, lifts in the handof…
Rule Zombie Britannia
The U.K. is isolated, as European leaders seek to beat off the instability and irrationality radiating from…
