Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Against Princeton
The urgent message hit my inbox yesterday. It was from Kim Benston, the president of my alma…
A Theology of Adoption
Not by Nature but by Graceby gilbert meilaenderuniversity of notre dame, 136 pages, $25 The theme of…
Our Ancient Debt to Alcuin
If your intentions are carried out, it may be that a new Athens will arise in France…
Catholic America
Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America by Kevin Starr Ignatius, 675 pages, $34.95 In The Good…
The Necessity of Judgment
Montaigne: A Lifeby philippe desantranslated by steven rendall and lisa nealprinceton, 832 pages, $39.95 When faced with…
Letters
Sacraments, Not Sweets James Zacchaeus’s story (“Thanks for Everything, Pope Francis,” June/July) is a testimony to what…
Euthanasia for Alzheimer’s Patients?
The medically vulnerable have rarely been in greater jeopardy. Alzheimer’s disease patients are at particular risk. In…
This Sporting Life
Amid the hoo-hah surrounding the clash between Donald Trump and the NFL, perhaps the most important question…
Ban the Laptops, Yes
A study just appeared in Education Next, under the title “Should Professors Ban Laptops?” The study worked like this:…
The Lost Purpose of Learning
In the autumn of AD 386, a thirty-two-year-old academic superstar named Aurelius Augustinus made a radical move:…
What They Knew Without Seeing
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Or, to put it more contemporarily, what has Shakespeare’s formation…
Losing my Child at Easter
The closest my husband got to giving away he was going to propose was at the Easter…
Camille Paglia’s Teaching
Camille Paglia is an idiosyncratic mix of liberal and conservative convictions—or perhaps we should say that she,…
To My Daughter, Turning Ten
Beacon’s Riverfront Park looks different today, as if we’d been away for years, though it has only…
Abraham Lincoln, Matchmaker
What if Abraham Lincoln had sent a young socialite to meet an injured soldier, without telling her…
