Theology
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Make America Great Again, Again, 2024
Allow me to offer a modest proposal: Erasmus for president, 2024. It’s never too early to get…
Leaving Afghanistan
Today, the United States has withdrawn its military forces from Afghanistan. Whatever one thinks about how the…
Conversations with Mark Bauerlein
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Firth joins the podcast…
Remembering Fr. Joseph Koterski
Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (November 28, 1953–August 9, 2021), was a man who worked hard, very…
Pope Francis Chooses Fr. Martin
In late June, just as I was arriving in Kraków, Poland, for the annual seminar in Catholic…
Robert E. Lee and Me
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”—William Faulkner On my desk is a picture of…
Pope Leo XIII and Contemporary Catholic Contentions
Given everything else going on these days, it may seem strange that a 129-year-old encyclical by Pope…
Bach and Pythagoras
Anyone who begins playing Bach as an adult will notice two things: that he should have started…
Briefly Noted
The Telling:How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Lifeby mark gerson st. martin’s essentials, 352 pages,…
Civics after Midnight
Imagination is a monarchy;They cannot rule where they cannot decree.Just think of Solzhenitzyn underground,His manuscripts in danger,…
Class Acts
Another summer, another moving season in Northern Virginia, a region filled with peripatetic military and federal families.…
Infinite Hitlers
Civilizationsby laurent binettranslated by sam taylorfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 In 1980, the soldiers of the…
Just Here
A young friend of mine recently fell victim to an unexpected and horrific illness. For some time, it…
Letters—Aug/Sept 2021
Karl Barth I read R. R. Reno’s charitable words on Karl Barth with great interest (“Karl Barth,”…
One-Man Revolution
The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin:Easy Essays from the Catholic Workeredited by lincoln ricefordham, 864 pages, $34.95 In…
