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Still Waking Up
Like many others, I was grieved to learn of Michael Novak’s passing. Though I had never met…
What We’ve Been Reading—2.17.17
Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor…
Love Among the Artifacts
There’s nothing like a good flyleaf inscription. Salutations from an ancient friend inside the cover of a…
Slackers
It’s a challenge to get a clear idea of what slackers are really all about. Tom Lutz…
Living Sacrifices
Joseph Ratzinger reflects on Romans 12:1-2 in his Theology of the Liturgy (349-51), which is evident in…
Passivity and Freedom
Ingolf Dalferth thinks we are Creatures of Possibility. By that, he means that “we are creatures in…
The State after ‘68
According to Pierre Manent (Beyond Radical Secularism), May 1968 marked a critical turning point in the political…
On Separating Church and State
Separation of church and state, religion and politics, is not “sufficient unto itself,” argues Pierre Manent (Beyond…
Architecture of Fancy
The title essay of John Summerson’s Heavenly Mansions sets Gothic architecture in a story of the architecture…
Slow Grow
In his Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert J. Gordon argues that the growth rates for…
Anthropology of Deficiency
According to Ingolf Dalferth (Creatures of Possibility), Christianity “contradicts a view that understands human beings in their…
Passive Creativity
Christian theology has long taught that we are “finite copies of the infinite Creator: created creators” (Dalferth,…
Descartes, Nihilist
In her After Writing, Catherine Pickstock argues that the Cartesian Cogito is grounded in a Cartesian ontology,…
Allotments
1 Chronicles 23–27 describes the distribution of responsibilities for the house of Yahweh (chs. 23–26) and the…
Art, Divine and Human
According to Jean-Louis Chretien (Hand to Hand), the notion of God as divine artist and of the…
