April 2022
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A Theology of Fiction
A spirited debate has been going on for nearly a decade now, much of it in these pages,…
Calendar as Catechism
The Jewish calendar is the Jewish catechism: So said the -nineteenth-century German champion of Jewish Orthodoxy, Samson…
From Anglican to Catholic
On September 29 last year, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, I was received into…
Nihilism for the Ironhearted
When a man proclaims nature malignant in all its parts and professes to hate life itself, one’s…
The End of Christendom?
New York police officer Wilbert Mora was buried February 2. He was gunned down in a Harlem…
An Apostle of Literature
In the fall of 2021, a student at the University of Dallas asked me to give a…
Fruitful and Multiplied
Dizengoff Street, a tree-lined corridor of commerce and pleasure, is Tel Aviv’s main artery. Squint a little,…
Letters
East and West In his memoirs of growing up in the U.S.S.R., Wolfgang Leonhard recalled how he…
Mirrors of Perfection
Our society is confused about children. We allow their destruction in the womb and their manufacture in…
The Golden Age of Censorship
The history of American cinema in the twentieth century is understood today as a march from inhibition…
Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaroby richard lappermanchester, 272 pages, $29.95 In 1941,…
France’s Tragic Song
The Song of Rolandtranslated by dorothy l. sayerspenguin, 208 pages, $14 This year, France’s presidential election is…
Miseducation of the Millennials
The Dumbest Generation Grows Up:From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adultsby mark bauerleinregnery gateway, 256 pages, $29.99 Not…
The Rage of Meir Kahane
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radicalby shaul magidprinceton, 296 pages, $35…
An Anglo-Latin Prayer From The Book of Nunnaminster
I. Nourishment O Vitality!true blush and bloomof those who’ve diedbut live nowin Heaven, to you, Aliment of…
An Anglo-Latin Prayer From The Book of Nunnaminster II
II. Appearance O Architect of the stars (brightness blazoned as if strewn), you, who ranged the constellations…
God of the Gold and Purple finches
Finches at all my feeders flash and bickerin ritual consternation and all weather,jangle at me with never-ending…
Rising, Rooted
Now is the timeto be still and listen,This is the beginning,Help us to hear,Rooted and rising,The sound…
An Anglo-Latin Prayer From The Book of Nunnaminster III
III. Conversion God, imagine you(O Majesty!)emerging fromobscurityat thatsmall feast— At Cana,a wonder:clarity uncloudstheir heartswhen the best winegushesfrom…
