Coming tomorrow in “On the Square,” David Hart reflects on Julian the Apostate—once described in my hearing, by someone confused by the “X the Y” title, as “St. Julian the Apostate”—and how similar he is to us.
In the meantime, if you have not read them or haven’t looked at the responses, you’ll want to look at R. R. Reno’s Homosexuality and the Moral Failure of Higher Education and George Weigel’s What Gettysburg Means .
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