Inside a Cloistered Monastery: Joy and Love
David Gonzales, New York Times
The Centenary of the Silmarillion: Celebrating Two Tolkiens
Bradley J. Birzer, Imaginative Conservative
On the Pleasures of Not Reading
Dan Piepenbring, Paris Review
The Politics of Star Trek
Timothy Sandefur, Claremont Institute
Workplaces Make Terrible Monasteries
Leah Libresco, Patheos
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…