Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why the Rationalist Religion Failed in America
In the Church of Saint Thomas Paine:A Religious History of American Secularismby leigh eric schmidtprinceton, 272 pages,…
A Bookish Christmas Gift Guide
We are surfeited with end-of-year lists purporting to name the “10 Best” or “20 Best” or “100…
Sweat The Small Stuff
One cause of American society’s shift to the left over the past six decades has been a…
Dinner at Gautreau’s
I’m seated at Gautreau’s, uptown, with Laine, / fine student, now good friend. Obliged to book /…
Letters—December 2022
American Empire Congratulations to Nigel Biggar for his “A Christian Defense of American Empire” (October). As three…
The Dead End of the New Left
For decades, the progressive left has denounced the West for fostering imperialism. Since at least the 1960s,…
Briefly Noted — 12/22
Behold the Christ: Proclaiming the Gospel of Matthew by leroy a. huizenga emmaus road, 448 pages, $27.95…
Prodigal Daughter
Like many a wayward daughter of middle-class America, when I was in college I took up academic…
Unintended Consequences
To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II by george weigel basic books, 368 pages,…
A Twentieth-Century Prophet
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon a cult. Browsing in a secondhand bookshop, I picked up…
The F-Word
Fighting the Last War: Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right by jeffrey…
Church, State, and the Common Good
Capitalism is best understood as the modern ambition to order and value all available resources solely on…
Satan Unbound
On the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany in 2021, after churches had reopened but while…
Leo Strauss and the Closed Society
In the spring of 1941, as Hitler was laying plans for his invasion of the Soviet Union,…
Ancients and Moderns
We are no better than our ancestors. I firmly believe this, although apparently many others do not.…
