Theology

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The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Stanley Fish…

I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict in June 1988; over the next three decades, I’ve enjoyed many…

Jack Kerouac, who coined the phrase “Beat Generation,” railed against those who interpreted it as meaning “beat…

During and after the grim martial law period in the early 1980s, many freedom-minded Poles would greet…

Keeping a straight face, I’m going to argue that American popular comedy has lost the virtue of…

In 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was received into the Catholic Church.…

Shorthand is convenient, but sometimes it confuses. In the game of telephone, by which ideas evolve through…

North by Northwest’s style is so impeccable, its tone so effervescent, that many viewers fail to grasp…

I asked my friend, the poet, / how she was getting by. / “Work and tears,” /…

The power-cut candle’s wobbly precision / ushers the church hall back into vision. / We assembled them…

Your eyes sparkled. And there was playfulness / In your smile that veiled your age, / Softening…

In this issue, Oren Cass explodes the false dichotomy between cultural questions and economic ones (“The Problem…

The Testamentsn nby margaret atwoodn ntalese, 432 pages, $28.95 Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in…

Jacob’s Ladder: The Unauthorised Biography of Jacob Rees-Moggby michael ashcroft biteback, 352 pages, £20 On February 2,…