The Quality of Fear
David Brooks, The New York Times
Evolution and Ethics, Revisited
Gertrude Himmelfarb, The New Atlantis
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Charles Carman, Books & Culture
Our Endangered Species
Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard
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…