Information and History
Alan Jacobs, New Atlantis
Culture-War Vertigo? Free-Solo Fear? Mind the Rock
Dominic Verner, O.P., Dominicana
Greece Agrees to Its Third European Bailout After Marathon Talks
Simon Shuster, TIME
Pope Says He Wasn’t Offended by Communist Crucifix
Associated Press
Courts Support Obama’s Contraceptive Policy, but Challenges Remain
Robert Pear, New York Times
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…