April 2023

There are two types of patients: those who want to run the show, and those who want…

Jews throughout the world celebrate the first nights of Passover, which commemorate God’s deliverance of the Israelites…

What is a woman’s place in society? Down the centuries, from Plato and Aristotle to Margaret Sanger…

Have you not heard of that mad Catholic professor who lit a lantern in the bright morning…

My mother was notorious for it: checking out of a hotel with an item or two more…

In November 2022, the ACLU’s deputy director for transgender justice came out against gay marriage. “I find…

Family and Poetry I was very gripped by Kerri ­Christopher’s essay, “Three Christmas Dinners” (February 2023). I’ve…

One day this winter, I found myself staring into a deep, dark, menacing hole. I mean that…

Level with me—you’re Catholic, right? I get this question a lot—from students, folks at church, academic colleagues.…

One of the priests I most admire grew up on a farm on the Canadian plains. The…

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by andrea wulf knopf, 512 pages,…

Kennan: A Life Between Worlds by frank costigliola princeton, 648 pages, $39.95 Another Kennan bio­graphy? The study…

The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics by andrew willard jones emmaus road, 376 pages, $34.95…

Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus by thomas m. ward angelico, 174 pages, $26…

Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries and Criticism edited by mark dooley bloomsbury,…

Spare by prince harry random house, 416 pages, $36 Every Briton seems to have reached a verdict…

The war in Ukraine is passing the one-year mark as I write. In its early days, the…

The clouds are fused with amber fire As vultures climb a dirgy gyre, Babel building with each…

In Bethany, what might the Lord have said Had Martha never questioned Mary’s ways; If Mary were…