December 2025
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Letters
I regret that Aaron Kheriaty’s very good analysis of the desiccated landscape of bioethics (“Zombie Bioethics,” October…
The Death of Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman was a Nobel laureate in economics, the author of the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and…
Christian Ownership Maximalism
Christendom is gone. So, too, is much of the Western civilization that was built atop it. Christians…
Walker Percy’s Pilgrimage
People can get used to most anything. Even the abyss may be rendered tolerable—or, for that matter,…
We Were Jesus Freaks
”Hey you, I’m into Jesus,” I sang, driving to school in my 1988 Buick Park Avenue, the…
Kings, Behold and Wail
I was a full-time parish priest at a time when we still visited people in their homes.…
Taming the Tongue
On October 14, Politico reported on a group chat in which leaders of various Young Republicans groups…
The Common Sense of John Searle
The twentieth-century philosopher Wilfrid Sellars drew an influential distinction between “the manifest image,” which is the way…
Canterbury Fails
When it was announced in October that the next archbishop of Canterbury would be a woman with…
False Patriots
November 5, 2024, was one of the most joyous days of my life. Like 77,302,580 of my…
México Profundo
There is a narrative of Mexican history that might be called “liberal,” or perhaps more accurately “liberal-national-revolutionary.”…
How to Become a Low-Tech Family
Is there a life beyond the screen? In 2010, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows described what the internet…
Finest Pieces of Plastic
Writing early in 1810, diplomat and scholar Georg Griesinger gave the most detailed surviving account...
The Rest as History
The Sabbath is making a comeback. Across the West, that most singular and ancient of weekly phenomena—a…
Fossilized Faith
Christian Smith, a sociologist at Notre Dame, has a knack for turning academic research into books that…
Briefly Noted
The Book of Mormon simultaneously affirms the Bible and challenges its uniqueness, with the stated purpose to…
Overcoming Nihilism
Shoah is the Hebrew word for catastrophic ruin and unmitigated disaster. It appears in Psalm 35 as…
Rome and Immigration
The West is being roiled by populism. Voters are increasingly bitter about the effects of globalization, which…
While We’re At It
The indispensable data analyst Ryan Burge reports a slight uptick in belief in the afterlife. A…
Petrarch: Rime Sparse 81
I am so wearied by the ancient weight Of my own sins, by my bad habits’ load…
Strange Gods
We promised Joshua that we would serve the god who brought us to this land. Of course...
On an Iced Handrail
Sunlight coruscates the ice and glitters, turning the chipped, green handrail to a ray of emerald only…
Sounds of Kyoto
They intensify the courtyard’s evening chill, the dragon flutes, soaring with other woodwinds through variations...
