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The Point of Gosnell
I went to see Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer because I thought I ought…
Kissing Purity Culture Goodbye
Last week, twenty-one years after its initial publication, Joshua Harris officially denounced and discontinued publication of his…
The Bookish Life
The village idiot of the shtetl of Frampol was offered the job of waiting at the village…
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—October 2018
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,…
