Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Prince of Diplomats
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by wolfram siemann translated by daniel steuer harvard, 928 pages, $24.95 In the…
Just Hospitality
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear by matthew kaemingkeerdmans, 352 pages, $28 Without…
American Scream
The American Dream Is Not Dead (But Populism Could Kill It)by michael r. strain templeton, 168 pages,…
Confucian Integralism
In May 1989, protestors in Tiananmen Square erected a plaster statue of the Goddess Democracy. For almost…
COVID-19: New York Diary
Friday, March 20. A light fog hangs in the air in the early morning as I walk…
An Accident
The road flares burning where the truck swerved off / Just before midnight show the streaks in…
Thumbing an Issue of Forbes
In the obits, ballplayers still finish first, / their August exploits no one quite remembers / restored…
Methodism Dividing
In the summer of 2016, Karen Oliveto, a “self-avowed practicing homosexual,” was elected and consecrated a bishop…
Reading the Signs
So-and-so slept here, a date, a list / of battles fought—whatever they’re about, / he reads them…
The Secret of the Saeculum
The Music of Providence In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers…
Notre-Dame de Paris, 2015
Most evenings I’d meet Daniel right in front / Of City Hall, to walk home for our…
Italy in Crisis
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
To a small child in 1957 Brooklyn, Little Rock was a faraway place. The only thing I…
Time to Wake Up
This interview with Pierre Manent, conducted by Eugénie Bastié, was originally published in Le Figaro. Eugénie Bastié: The crisis we…
The Department of Faulty Generalizations
You’re at least vaguely familiar, I’m sure, with those many fanciful series of novels (quite various tonally…