April 2020
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Letters—April 2020
Identitarians Theodore Dalrymple (“Identity as Ideology,” February) is certainly correct to point to the yearning for transcendence…
Contrapuntal Order
Around the start of the seventeenth century, a new sense of the word “harmony” emerged. To that…
Professors as Propagandists
Imagine that you recently discovered a book titled How Cancer Works, written by a respected professor from…
Learning Latin
Some people acquire foreign languages more easily than others. I, alas, am one of those others. I…
Deleuze on Desire
Andrea Long Chu, a biological male, explained in a 2018 op-ed for the New York Times why…
Taking Sheen Seriously
Fulton J. Sheen is defined in popular imagination by the persona he adopted on Life Is Worth…
Happiness for All
A few years ago, when a group of students at Emory University prepared to demonstrate against a controversial…
The Ghost of Classical Liberalism
In America, most right-leaning pundits espouse some form of “classical liberalism,” a theory that stresses free markets,…
The Vaccinator’s Dilemma
Among the blessings of modern living, we routinely count standard vaccinations for adults and children. Scourges such…
A Modern Mendicant
Richard Lamar Ochiltree wandered the streets of Washington, D.C., for several years, mostly along a few blocks…
Keep It Simple
God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonismby william lane craigoxford, 280 pages, $88 Mathematics…
Epicurus Today
How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Wellby catherine wilson basic, 304 pages, $30…
Formation for Worship
Cultural Liturgies, Vol. 1–3 by james k. a. smith baker academic, 720 pages, $69.99 The Christian faith…
The Great Saracen
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by jonathan phillips yale, 520 pages, $32.50 In 1187,…
Perilous Directions
Original Prin: A Novel by randy boyagoda biblioasis, 224 pages, $14.95 Pity the satirist: He labors under…
Briefly Noted
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944–45by freya and helmuth james von moltke translated by shelley frischnew york…
Christ Crowned with Thorns
To really hear what I’m about to say / Is probably impossible apart / From taking in…
Easter Vigil
You’re rising somewhere in the April night / Again, as ever with returning spring. / Your tomb…
About a Garden I Once Knew in a Swamp
I could have listened to her read a phone book, / numbers and letters formed in her…
Trophies
Who says we give away the pearls we own? / Think make-believe: think souvenir or prize...
Three Epigrams from Richard Crashaw, Epigrammata Sacra
Divided hearts are entering at one door. / Two men approach the Temple. One wears grand /…
In Plato’s Cave
I am blind and burnt. / An old man taught me home’s forgetting, / murderous seducer left…
Easter Morning
At dawn, the shapes of cypresses in fog / were fingers pointing up from graves, as if…
