Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Why Does Religion Need Commandments?

Reuven Ziegler

What is the point of the myriad commandments governing every aspect of a Jew’s life? Why does…

A Tradition Unlike Any Other

Brandon McGinley

If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…

Hell Yes

Peter J. Leithart

Last week, the Drudge Report cited an interview with Pope Francis in tabloid all-caps: POPE DECLARES NO…

Conscience of a Kennedy

Charles Donovan

A cruel April is at hand for the memory of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Tomorrow…

What Makes Us Equal

F. H. Buckley

After the 2016 election, when white working-class voters turned out for Donald Trump, the New York Times…

Air Turbulence and the Resurrection

George Weigel

If there’s anything Catholics in the United States should have learned over the past two decades, it’s…

Stephen Hawking, Surprised by Joy?

Charlotte Allen

Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot got in trouble when she tweeted on March 14, the day of…

Briefly Noted

Various

Pieter Bruegelby larry silverabbeville, 464 pages, $150 Times were hard in the Low Countries during the life…

Sovereign

Bryce Christensen

“Death is king, and Vivat Rex!”—Alfred, Lord Tennyson He wields the scepter mortals must obey:The magistrate and…

He Stands Apart

Mark Bauerlein

The Ross Macdonald Collection: 11 Classic Lew Archer Novelsby ross macdonaldedited by tom nolanlibrary of america, 3 volumes,…

Vowels into Colors

Rachel Hadas

A mauve, E grey, I dark, U green, O . . . range.I do not see you,…

Economics as Ideology

Richard Spady

Economics can serve as an ideo­logy. But it can be something other than an ideology. It can…

Job’s Children

Shalom Carmy

In S. Y. Agnon’s 1939 novel A Guest for the Night, one of the protagonists, Daniel Bach,…

Battle for Europe

​Ryszard Legutko

Byliśmy głupi by marcin król czerwone i czarne, 256 pages, zł 39.90 Pravým okem: Antologie současného polského…

The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae

Mary Eberstadt

One recurring theme in Pope Francis’s teaching is that human realities trump scholarly abstractions: “La realidad es…