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Battle of the Soul

Peter J. Leithart

Prudentius’s Psychomachia (5th century AD) is one of the first and one of the most influential of…

The Un-Dante

Peter J. Leithart

In a contribution to Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works Teodolinda Barolini contrasts the love poetry…

Nations: Grown or Imagined?

Peter J. Leithart

Romantic thinkers, perhaps most especially Johann Gottfried Herder, developed an organic conception of nationhood. A nation is…

Imagining Finland

Peter J. Leithart

Nations are “imagined communities,” and one of the ways nations imagine themselves is to imagine themselves as…

Invention of Allegory

Peter J. Leithart

CS. Lewis describes the formation of medieval allegorism in his classic Allegory of Love. He begins by distinguishing between…

Teach Us to Pray

Peter J. Leithart

Christians have watched in helpless horror at the release of videos of masked ISIS warriors shooting and…

First Links—4.24.15

The Editors

Officials: Islamic Extremist’s Misfire Foiled Attack on Paris Christians The Chicago Tribune Up in Smoke—Plain Packaging and…

Mystic Ark

Peter J. Leithart

Conrad Rudolph’s The Mystic Ark is the product of impressive scholarship. Its focus is on the image of…

Deflating Humanism

Peter J. Leithart

In his English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, CS Lewis makes two deflationary comments about the effects…

First Links—4.23.15

The Editors

Pope Francis: Europe’s Christians and Jews Must Stand Together to Defeat Persecution Cindy Wooden, The Catholic Herald…

Teaching Environment

Peter J. Leithart

Teaching and learning never take place in no-place. They are always in an environment. The issue is…

Sanctifying the Dead

Peter J. Leithart

“The dead do not praise Yahweh, nor do any who do down into silence” (Psalm 115:17). It’s…

Epic to Romance

Peter J. Leithart

RW Southern (Making of the Middle Ages) sees a commonality between the romances of of the high middle…

Questions for the Atlanta Archdiocese

Mark Bauerlein

The latest issue of the Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Atlanta Archdiocese, announces a new pastoral plan aimed at…

First Links—4.22.15

The Editors

Relocating Enchantment Charlie Clark, Fare Forward Friends, This is Not Tolerance Kathryn Jean Lopez,  National Review ‘Reading Lists,…