Catholics Who Disagree with the Vatican think the Church Will Change
Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight
‘Hypocrite,’ the All-Purpose Political Insult
Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal
Variant Readings
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
Kim Davis: Political Prisoner? Culture-War Martyr?
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Taylor Swift: A Socratic Dialogue
Jared Smith, McSweeney’s
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…