Fifty Years Ago, “It Was a Splendid Day . . . ”
Pope Benedict XVI, L’Osservatore Romano
The Sugar Wars: What Constitutes Public Health?
Trevor Butterworth, The Awl
Slavery, Historical Heroes, and “Precious Puritans”
Thomas Kidd, The Anxious Bench
American Muslims’ Swing Vote Potential
Aref Assaf, NJLive
The Enduring Institution: Marriage in the West
Helen Alvare, Liberty Law Site
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…