Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Importance of Holy Days of Obligation
My understanding of the sensus fidei is guided not by what the secular academy would think is…
Remembering Benedict
Others have written beautifully about the legacy of Joseph Ratzinger and his tenure as Pope Benedict XVI.…
Letters from Rome: #2
The True Joseph Ratzinger The Joseph Ratzinger I knew for thirty-five years—first as prefect of the Congregation…
Old Possum Ain’t Dead
Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’ by robert crawford farrar, straus and giroux, 624 pages, $40 When T.…
Get Real
Nature as Guide: Wittgenstein and the Renewal of Moral Theology by david goodill catholic university of america,…
Mystic Alcohology
Distilled: A Natural History of Spirits by rob desalle and ian tattersall yale university, 328 pages, $30…
Evening, Washington Metro
Entrained, en masse, an ebb as from a beach: the tide drawn by the Capitol (the dome…
Mystery
You could, for mental exercise, do worse Than work the puzzle of a universe That kindly took…
The Progressive Scarlett O’Hara
In the summer of 2020, HBO removed Gone with the Wind (1939) from its streaming service. The…
Grace and Serendipity
When you’re a linguist, you get used to being asked how many languages you speak. But a…
That Haunting Nihilism
I’m becoming an N. S. Lyons fan. “A Prophecy of Evil: Tolkien, Lewis, and Technocratic Nihilism” is…
Why China Loves Conservatives
Conservatives in the West see in the People’s Republic of China a daunting nemesis: an oppressive tech…
Anatomy of a Cancellation
It all began at the National Conservatism conference in Orlando on Halloween 2021. I spoke on family…
Slippery Slopes
The Canadian government, with its leaders, functionaries, and even its medical acolytes, may well deserve to be…
The Rise of the Biomedical Security State
Roger Severino and Aaron Kheriaty sit down for a wide ranging interview about COVID-19, medical ethics, and…
