Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Briefly Noted
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944–45by freya and helmuth james von moltke translated by shelley frischnew york…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 31
Tuesday. More overcast skies. More cold. Ugh. Spring is being shy. She delays her entrance. Hard to…
Taking Sheen Seriously
Fulton J. Sheen is defined in popular imagination by the persona he adopted on Life Is Worth…
The Ghost of Classical Liberalism
In America, most right-leaning pundits espouse some form of “classical liberalism,” a theory that stresses free markets,…
Contrapuntal Order
Around the start of the seventeenth century, a new sense of the word “harmony” emerged. To that…
Trophies
Who says we give away the pearls we own?Think make-believe: think souvenir or prizefor weathering a storm,…
Professors as Propagandists
Imagine that you recently discovered a book titled How Cancer Works, written by a respected professor from…
Three Epigrams from Richard Crashaw, Epigrammata Sacra
Phariseus et publicanus. Luc xviii. 14–19 En duo templum adeunt, diversis mentibus ambo. …
Learning Latin
Some people acquire foreign languages more easily than others. I, alas, am one of those others. I…
Deleuze on Desire
Andrea Long Chu, a biological male, explained in a 2018 op-ed for the New York Times why…
The Vaccinator’s Dilemma
Among the blessings of modern living, we routinely count standard vaccinations for adults and children. Scourges such…
The Great Saracen
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by jonathan phillips yale, 520 pages, $32.50 In 1187,…
A Modern Mendicant
Richard Lamar Ochiltree wandered the streets of Washington, D.C., for several years, mostly along a few blocks…
Deaths Delayed
Last week, Pennsylvania state representative Stephanie Borowicz proposed a resolution that called for a day of prayer,…
Coronavirus and the Cult of Expertise
Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue is best known for two arguments. The first half of the book criticizes…
