February 2025
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Letters – February 2025
Gendered Proclivities Rhys Laverty (“Lady Scrooges,” December 2024) was perceptive in pointing out that women helped build…
Farewell to Liberal-Imperial Diplomacy
In late June 2022, a small rubber dinghy sailed down the Danube River in Budapest, past the…
AI and the Unhappy Society
Recently I had an experience that I suppose is becoming increasingly common. The large, publicly traded energy…
No Method but Christ
When I try to explain to people why we need to recover patristic interpretation, the biggest obstacle…
Wickedness
Though they probably don’t realize it, many Americans spent the tail end of 2024 engaged in a…
Briefly Noted
The Habit of Poetry:The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century Americaby Nick RipatrazoneFortress, 125 pages, $28.99 Nick…
A New Fusionism
Elon Musk cannonballed into electoral politics in 2024. Other tech bros joined him to support Donald Trump.…
What to Remember
I had thought of calling this piece “Against Memory.” Hyperbolic, perhaps, but I had my reasons. I’ve started…
Orthodoxy at War
St. Sophia Cathedral is quiet and almost empty when I step inside on a wintry morning. Saints…
Forgiveness: A Statement by Jews and Christians
In January 2023, a group of Jewish and Christian scholars met to form a circle of study…
Parents Can’t Fight Porn Alone
Madi grew up in a religious home, blessed with attentive parents who took the dangers of technology…
The Patriarch and the Palestinians
If I drink coffee at every meeting, I’ll kill someone,” His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa says when I…
Paleofuturism
Dawn’s Early Light:Taking Back Washington to Save Americaby kevin d. robertsbroadside, 304 pages, $32 When Kevin Roberts…
Declaring Independence
American Heretics:Religious Adversaries of Liberal Orderby jerome e. copulskyyale, 384 pages, $40 In the summer of 1775,…
The Church of Empathy
Circle of Hope:A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Churchby eliza griswoldfarrar, straus and…
The Death and Life of Bohemia
Talkin’ Greenwich Village:The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capitalby david brownehachette, 352 pages,…
Goethe’s Bargain
Goethe:His Faustian Lifeby a. n. wilsonbloomsbury, 416 pages, $35 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is among the most…
Exemplary
A vagabond, seduced by impish godsTo jaywalk the downtown interstate, is dead.Addled with booze, he managed against…
Epistle to a Former Friend
When I say a prayerfor the wicked I despairand think, of course, of youand how your late-night…
Saint Gobnait of the Honeybees
She’d have naught of silvery turnings like fish,The Celtic knot of wedded, bedded love.She stole away to…
