Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Reunion on the Far Shore
Heaven,” Jonathan Edwards says in the fifteenth and last of his Charity Sermons, “is a World of…
The Genius of Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich:An Intellectual Journeyby david cayleypenn state, 560 pages, $44.95 Ivan Illich’s star once burned brightly. From…
Saint Gertrude
The patroness of those beset by mice and rats, she stands before red tapestry. Blue floor tiles…
O Light Exalted
Dante’s understanding of the heavens—as spheres rotating around the Earth—has been out of date astronomically for nearly…
As It Turns Out
Give me, I thought, a stand of tilted pines guarding white water hurtling into mist. Give me…
The Rise of Wildean Wokeism
In a healthy academic culture, the ethics of debate and argument include a commitment to civility and…
Loving and Hating the Middle Ages
A few miles from my home in West London is an Anglican church constructed in the Gothic…
Elite Grifters
The 9.9 Percent:The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Cultureby matthew stewartsimon & schuster,…
America’s Most Challenging High Schools
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jay Mathews joins the podcast…
Reality Is Messy
On every hand we hear it said that “divisions” in “our society” (American, that is) are deeper…
Common Questions about the Bible
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. William Mounce joins the podcast…
Steven Pinker Meets Socrates
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by steven pinker viking, 340 pages,…
Our Neo-Feudal Future
America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous…
The Case For Black Patriotism
It seems only a few years ago that I was calling myself “a man of the left.”…
Divine Micro-Climates
The Baron de Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1748) has been among the most influential modern…
