September 2023

Life After Dobbs
The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and…
Sacrificing the Young
Death rates among American children are on the rise. Young people are killed by homicide and car…
Synodality and the Spirit of Truth
Facts and great personages in world history occur, as it were, twice . . . the first…
The Rise of Antihumanism
In 2009, one of Google’s self-driving cars came to an intersection with a four-way stop. It came…
Theopolitics of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow have claimed that Russia’s so-called Special Operation is…
Canon of the Word
One of the books that most influenced my moral and personal imagination was a small novel, Une…
Letters
Heart’s Longings Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey’s article “Insight at First Sight” (May 2023) was perceptive and…
Sally Rooney’s Catholic Millennials
Recently, while reading Sally Rooney’s hugely acclaimed novels for the first time, I messaged a friend to…
Seriously, God Is Love
Sergius Bulgakov has long been hailed by Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike as a titan of twentieth-century theology.…
Sex in the One State
The most important book you can read right now is a little (and little-known) Russian novel titled…
The Pope of Peace
Amidst a war involving the world’s foremost nuclear powers, Pope Francis has been a lonely voice for…
Deneen’s New Deal
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Futureby patrick j. deneensentinel, 288 pages, $30 What we are witnessing in…
Escape from Irony
Dimes Square and Other Playsby matthew gasdaapplause, 284 pages, $22.95 Are you religious?” alcoholic rich kid Jay…
Losing Their Religion
Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian Americaby stephen bullivantoxford, 272 pages, $29.95 Nonverts—people who once identified with a…
The Uses of Death
From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Bodyby randall b. smithemmaus…
Rime Ice
He wouldn’t say her memory was lostBut that she was lost in it—the foggy pastClung to her…