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What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023

The Editors

Mark Bauerlein Contributing Editor Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education has an unfortunate pertinence to 2023 America, at least to the…

Taking the Founders at Their Word

Brad Littlejohn

The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding by…

Gatekeeping for the Barbarians

Justin Lee

Gatekeepers serve an invaluable function in a healthy society. At their best, they ensure institutional competence, even…

The Duchess Who Shaped the Fate of France

Bronwen Catherine McShea

The following is excerpted from Bronwen McShea’s new historical biography, La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de…

Pray for Kate Forbes

Carl R. Trueman

On February 15, the radically progressive Nicola Sturgeon announced she would resign as first minister of Scotland.…

Briefly Noted — 3/23

Various

No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men by anthony esolen regnery, 204 pages, $29.99…

Constitutional Freedom

Michael W. McConnell

Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment Religion…

Surviving the Metaverse

Mary Harrington

The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything by matthew ball liveright, 352 pages, $30 My childhood…

The Puzzle of 303 Creative

Hadley Arkes

3o3 Creative LLC v. Elenis has all the marks of a Masterpiece Cakeshop redux: From the same state…

The K–12 Education Renaissance

Jeremy Wayne Tate

Few parents are going to want their children to waste their formative years in joyless, factory-style learning…

Political Religion

Jake Meador

Bonhoeffer’s America: A Land Without Reformation by joel looper baylor university, 272 pages, $54.99 There is no…

Letters from Rome: #4

George Weigel

Parting Reflections On the Funeral Liturgy and Homily Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the…

Woman Is the Glory of Man

Peter J. Leithart

God saw that it was good” occurs seven times in Genesis 1, climaxing with a superlative “very…

Repeal Title IX

Teresa R. Manning

June 23 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. A product…

God’s Wrath

Alastair Roberts

Is God a Vindictive Bully?: Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments by paul copan baker…