Public Life
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A Call to Ordinary Heroism
Every night at 7 p.m., residents of Manhattan, where I live, fling open their windows. For about…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, April 1
Wednesday. Governor Cuomo has declared victory and lifted the shutdown order! April fools. Chilly wind out of…
An Open Letter to the Bishops of France
The following is an open letter to the author’s bishop—Msgr. Michel Aupetit, archbishop of Paris—and to all…
Biden’s Comeback
Last Tuesday’s election results confirmed what most observers strongly suspected after the Super Tuesday returns a week…
What Is Baptism?
Baptism is a sign. We grasp what it’s a sign of when we locate baptism within the…
Books About Next to Nothing
In The Decline of the Novel, Joseph Bottum puts words to something every reader of fiction has…
Jesus: Less Than Divine
Do you really believe that Jesus had two wills?” My friend’s pointed tone made clear what he…
Replace the Elite
The New Class War:Saving Democracy from the Managerial Eliteby michael lindportfolio, 224 pages, $25 Michael Lind’s The…
Aventine Meditations
Rome’s Aventine Hill has seen a lot. Legend has it that a dispute over the hill led…
War On the Concrete
The stark divide especially obvious in the world since 2016 has yet to be described adequately. The…
Evildoers and Their Art
The story goes that the great sculptor Eric Gill (1882–1940) was inclined—for reasons we will come to—to…
Common Good Conservatism In Action
Over the past year, conservatism has changed. At least, the way conservative intellectuals and some politicians talk…
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Burden
Before I come to my own (unsuccessful) candidacy, let me offer a few takeaways from Ireland’s general…
Heaven in History
History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theologyby n. t. wrightbaylor, 365 pages, $34.95 In the…
Flannery O’Connor and Friends, Revisited
Her fiction may occasionally get the chop in politically correct 21st-century American high schools. But as Benjamin…
