Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
David Foster Wallace to the Rescue
Let’s not speak of suicide. Let’s not encourage the cottage industry bent on reducing David Foster Wallace…
Is, Ought, and Nature’s Laws
There is a long, rich, varied, and subtle tradition of natural law theory, almost none of which…
NCAA
It’s always been Reward the win, Ignore the sin. The conscience sleeps When money keeps Pouring in.
Fathers Abraham
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jon D. Levenson Princeton,…
PORGIing Out
America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) by David Gelernter Encounter Books,…
Crosswalk
For several days I’ve watched a robin beat Herself repeatedly against a window. An oracle. A bird-sign…
Letters
Consumerist Care It is true that the medical services Wesley J. Smith defines as “consumerist”—such as cosmetic…
Seeing the God
For the first ten of its eleven chapters, the Metamorphosis or Golden Ass of Apuleius (c. 125-c.…
Toward a Just Order
A half century ago, John Courtney Murray’s response to Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris raised…
Limiting Moralism
A state is not a church. A state exists not to redeem humankind or to do God’s…
The Good Samaritan’s Burden
In his interestingly wrong-headed essay, Paul Miller argues that there are extraterritorial evils so great that they…
Triolet
Believing in the Eucharist, My faith affirmed within the Host, I welcome”with an upturned wrist, Believing in…
Responsible Conservatism
Conservatism needs to recover its ability to speak to our deep and perennial need for solidarity. The…
Afghanistan, Justice, and War
Afghanistan is a just war, and a just victory requires the reconstruction of the country. So I…
Briefly Noted
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott Norton, 400 pages, $17.95 In a…
