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A selection of recent articles on this topic
Crisis at CUA
It’s a shocking and ultimately sad story: The Catholic University of America has summarily suspended William Rainford,…
Educating For Liberty
Educate” derives from the Latin educare, “to lead out.” All education promises an exodus from the darkness…
Master of Intricate Forms
Dana Gioia once outlined the decline of American Catholic writing in the pages of First Things: Stated…
Cold Vulgarity
The promise of critical thinking often fails to deliver, as many commentators have shown. But as world…
Songs of Faith and Yearning
I can’t read Kant for long before my parody switch flicks on. The grand architecture of his…
The Nun and Vatican II
The Nun—director Corin Hardy’s horror movie set in 1952 in a remote, ultra-traditional Catholic convent in Romania—is…
Letters
Reformation Revisited Peter Hitchens is invariably witty and provocative. His recent essay (“Latimer and Ridley Are Forgotten,”…
Redeeming Transcendence
We live in a time of disenchantment, or so we’re told. Strange. Our first text is an…
The New Gulags
As a new teacher at Grove City College, I thought it appropriate to start my upper-level humanities…
Friendship in a Time of Scandal
We embraced twice: once on his priestly ordination day and once on a city street—quick, kind. I…
Abortion on Trial
Artists these days are required to either be atheists or tacitly agree to not, in Alastair Campbell’s…
Conjuring Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin’s poetry notoriously defies translation. Even Vladimir Nabokov made a mighty attempt at bringing Eugene Onegin,…
Wendell Berry Goes to School
Wendell Berry and Higher Education:Cultivating Virtues of Placeby jack r. baker and jeffrey bilbrouniversity press of kentucky,…
Sentiment Without Sentimentality
A Carnival of Losses:Notes Nearing Ninetyby donald hallhoughton mifflin harcourt, 224 pages, $25 Even in antiquity, some…
The Gold Virgin
What do the children of divorce know? Do they close their eyes at the moral messes in…
