Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park
John Herrman, The Awl
You Get What You Pay For
Aaron MacLean, Washington Free Beacon
The Real But Overstated Decline of American Christianity
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
Pope Francis Canonizes Two 19th-Century Palestinian Nuns
Francis X. Rocca and Joshua Mitnick, The Wall Street Journal
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…