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The Decline of Journalism
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Mark Hemingway…
A Procession Like No Other
Many people are processing through our city streets these days. Some of these processions are violent and…
“The Heavens Declare the Glory of God…”
In his Life of St. Augustine, the 5th-century bishop Possidius tells us that the greatest of the…
More Movies for Lockdown
As the rioting wanes but the lockdown continues in certain states, let’s add to the lists of…
Reporting on American Religion, Part One
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Kenneth L. Woodward…
The Vatican’s Choice: Jimmy Lai or Xi Jinping?
In mid-May, Chinese leader Xi Jinping unveiled a plan to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and impose draconian…
The Rise of Anti-Art
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Michelle Kamhi…
What We’ve Been Reading—May 2020
Mark BauerleinContributing Editor I just started reading Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell’s blockbuster 1936 novel of…
Games Intellectuals Play
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet met for the first time, Vice President Lyndon Johnson waxed…
An Encounter With My Past
Most of my memory of my teenage years is firmly locked and sealed. Sometimes a long-forgotten smell,…
A Protestant Appreciation of Pope John Paul II
During the Christmas season of 1999, while living in Russia, I read George Weigel’s extraordinary biography of…
Pope on the World Stage
On the Feast of the Assumption 1993, Pope John Paul II spoke to hundreds of thousands of…
The Business of Bible Translation
Daniel Taylor’s novel Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees comes out today from Slant, the excellent literary…
The Literature of Pestilence
During this pandemic, which has been documented nearly to exhaustion, two themes have captured my attention. The…
The Consolation of Poetry
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Micah…
