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Reformation Revisited Peter Hitchens is invariably witty and provocative. His recent essay (“Latimer and Ridley Are Forgotten,”…

Redeeming Transcendence

John Wilson

We live in a time of disenchantment, or so we’re told. Strange. Our first text is an…

The New Gulags

Carl R. Trueman

As a new teacher at Grove City College, I thought it appropriate to start my upper-level humanities…

Friendship in a Time of Scandal

L. S.

We embraced twice: once on his priestly ordination day and once on a city street—quick, kind. I…

Abortion on Trial

John Waters

Artists these days are required to either be atheists or tacitly agree to not, in Alastair Campbell’s…

Conjuring Pushkin

Peter Wood

Alexander Pushkin’s poetry notoriously defies translation.  Even Vladimir Nabokov made a mighty attempt at bringing Eugene Onegin,…

Wendell Berry Goes to School

John Murdock

Wendell Berry and Higher Education:Cultivating Virtues of Placeby jack r. baker and jeffrey bilbrouniversity press of kentucky,…

Sentiment Without Sentimentality

John Wilson

A Carnival of Losses:Notes Nearing Ninetyby donald hallhoughton mifflin harcourt, 224 pages, $25 Even in antiquity, some…

The Gold Virgin

Kenneth Colston

What do the children of divorce know? Do they close their eyes at the moral messes in…

Full-Immersion Catholicism

George Weigel

As this Catholic annus horribilis continues to unfold, perhaps some good news is in order; first, a little…

The Church’s Future Beauty

Ian Marcus Corbin

Institutions populated by humans are flawed, filthy things, whether families, corporations, universities, or dioceses. The sibilant hiss…

The Necessary Fear

Todd R. Flanders

What is said today about ‘fear’ of the Lord in Biblical language is true,” Father Ernest Fortin…

Washington’s Warning

Mark Movsesian

My friend John McGinnis has written a thoughtful review of “Canova’s George Washington,” a current exhibit at…

When Older Tech Is Better

K. E. Colombini

In an age when every piece of writing shared on the internet requires a visual image, generic…

Sex, Fear, and Idolatry

Angela Franks

Moral Combat:How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politicsby r. marie griffithbasic books, 416 pages, $32 Ever…