Theology

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Why School Prayer Matters

Steven D. Smith

In his State of the Union address and elsewhere, President Trump has emphasized the importance of prayer…

Prince of Diplomats

Peter Hitchens

Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by wolfram siemann translated by daniel steuer harvard, 928 pages, $24.95 In the…

Just Hospitality

Diederik Boomsma

Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fearnby matthew kaemingkneerdmans, 352 pages, $28 Without quite…

American Scream

Wells King

The American Dream Is Not Dead (But Populism Could Kill It)by michael r. strain templeton, 168 pages,…

Confucian Integralism

Matthew Schmitz

In May 1989, protestors in Tiananmen Square erected a plaster statue of the Goddess Democracy. For almost…

COVID-19: 
New York Diary

R. R. Reno

Friday, March 20. A light fog hangs in the air in the early morning as I walk…

An Accident

James Matthew Wilson

The road flares burning where the truck swerved off     Just before midnight show the streaks in…

Thumbing an Issue of Forbes

J.L. Wall

In the obits, ballplayers still finish first,their August exploits no one quite remembersrestored to life: the diving…

Methodism Dividing

Kevin Watson

In the summer of 2016, ­Karen Oliveto, a “self-avowed practicing homosexual,” was elected and consecrated a bishop…

Reading the Signs

Midge Goldberg

So-and-so slept here, a date, a listof battles fought—whatever they’re about,he reads them all, not just to…

The Secret of the Saeculum

Douglas Farrow

The Music of Providence In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers…

Notre-Dame de Paris, 2015

William Flesch

Most evenings I’d meet Daniel right in frontOf City Hall, to walk home for our mealOn Rue…

Italy in Crisis

Christopher Caldwell

With just over 120,000 people, Bergamo, northeast of Milan, is not a particularly populous city, and it…

Little Rock and the Terrors of Social Life

Shalom Carmy

To a small child in 1957 Brooklyn, Little Rock was a faraway place. The only thing I…

Time to Wake Up

Pierre Manent

This interview with Pierre Manent, conducted by Eugénie Bastié, was originally published in Le Figaro. Eugénie Bastié: The crisis we…