Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Tyranny in Germany
Less than five years ago, the German parliament passed a law prohibiting commercial “assistance in dying.” Last…
Briefly Noted
The River of the Immaculate Conceptionby james matthew wilson wiseblood, 28 pages, $10 In The River of…
Secular Monks
Jack Dorsey, cofounder and CEO of Twitter and founder and CEO of Square, wakes up at 5…
For and Against Integralism
Modernity does not just refer to the time in which we happen to live, the era that…
Limits of Religious Freedom
In the face of determined assaults on religion, conservative activists and intellectuals have offered increasingly strident defenses…
Why I Am Not a Liberal
I never called myself a liberal. For a long time, however, I considered liberalism a sound theory…
An Ordinary Life
The Old French word ordinarie, meaning “ordinary, usual,” derives from the medieval Latin ordinarius (“customary, regular, usual,…
Late-Night Musings on Nationalism
Pondering the endless glut of books on the virtues of nationalism and the failures of political liberalism,…
Early-Morning Musings on the Sacred
Recently, I met a Wall Street trader. He was in his late thirties, perhaps his early forties.…
Rebekah’s Ultrasound
Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb right from the start. Rebekah’s ultrasound, quite early on, revealed…
The Antidiscrimination Regime
I read The Age of Entitlement in one sitting, unable to put down Christopher Caldwell’s riveting account of…
Letters
Marriage & Mission Patricia Snow (“Hawthorne’s Daughter,” January) may perhaps be unaware of St. Jerome’s error in…
Prayer, Distraction, and Daily Life
Let’s begin by reviewing some fundamentals of Jewish prayer. The mandatory prayers are offered three times daily.…
Clashing Rights
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by christopher caldwell simon & schuster, 352 pages, $28…
The Centurion’s Tale
Ernest Hemingway’s little-known play Today is Friday, originally published in the collection Men Without Women, is a…