December 2023
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Holy Abortion
In 2016, Kaeley McEvoy was a student at New York’s Union Theological Seminary and a ministry intern…
Sweet Land of Michigan
When my wife and I moved away from the Midwest some fifteen years ago, we began an…
The New Agnosticism
“We are what we are before God and nothing more.” —St. Anthony of Padua In an interview…
What Happened to the ACLU
When he was a young social worker in St. Louis, Roger Baldwin was briefly engaged to Anna…
Christian Urbanism
Cities have figured prominently in the Christian imagination: City of God, City of Jerusalem, the Heavenly City.…
Fight Together, Win Together
On Saturday, October 7, a band of Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border and crossed into…
Letters
Tarkovsky I very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,”…
The Haunting of Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was haunted by the past. Ghosts prowled his house, peering through windows, moving furniture, startling…
What Monks Do
I am in a 1982 Volvo, headed north on I-5 toward Oceanside, at a pace I could easily…
Window of Opportunism
So-called “window bills,” which eliminate statutes of limitations on child sexual abuse claims for periods of two…
Anchors Aweigh
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution by hadley arkes regnery gateway, 352…
Briefly Noted — 12/23
The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him by amul thapar regnery gateway,…
Left Behind
The New Power Elite by heather gautney oxford university, 336 pages, $29.95 In the annals of quixotic…
Polar Rescue
Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for…
The Church’s Oligarch
La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot—Cardinal Richelieu’s Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France…
What Are Men For?
Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs by josh hawley regnery, 256 pages, $29.99 In July 1944, when…
Facing the Crisis
On October 7, more Jews were killed than on any single day since the Holocaust, many in…
Joy in the Lord
It’s Sarah’s old-bone incredulity wrecked by the coos of borne-out prophecy. It’s Jacob learning that his son’s…
Passionate Souls
Humble quarters calm proud men, and saltless meals compel them to engage real-world potatoes and fish. Days-old…
