February 2026
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Letters
As a forty-eight-year-old who graduated from high school in 1995, Trevin Wax’s “We Were Jesus Freaks”...
The Lonely Passion of Reginald Pole
A year after I became a Catholic, when my teenaged son was thinking about college, we visited…
In the Footsteps of Aeneas
Gian Lorenzo Bernini had only just turned twenty when he finished his sculpture of Aeneas, the mythical…
Cancer and the Cure of Souls
I have cancer,” the elderly woman announced from her hospital bed high above York Avenue in Manhattan.…
The Rise and Fall of Gay Activism
The Pride flag is progressive America’s banner. Before it was unfurled, most gays stayed in the closet.…
Mark Twain’s Religion
In 2014, when Kevin Malone’s opera Mysterious 44 premiered in Manchester, England, the production featured narrative voiceovers…
The Failure of Bioethics
When in April of 2025 the Hastings Center for Bioethics (the oldest bioethics think tank in this…
On the Pleasure of Admiring
The great essayist William Hazlitt observed that there is pleasure in hating. “Without something to hate,” he…
AI as Liberation
You can learn everything you need to know about our collective state of mind from the fact…
A Tale of Two Maybes
Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not”…
True Humans
The Catholic Church never condemned the theory of evolution nor came close to doing so...
Can Liberals Be Pronatalists?
Last year the United Nations Population Division predicted that global population will peak in approximately sixty years...
The Theology of Roe
A controversial abortion case reaches the Supreme Court, and men in black robes impose their religious views…
Stevenson’s Treasure
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company of writers renowned in their…
The Clash Within Western Civilization
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) was released in early December. It generated an unusual amount…
Christmas Nationalism
Writing for UnHerd, Felix Pope reported on a December 13 Christmas celebration organized by the English nationalist…
Postliberalism and Theology
After my musings about postliberalism went to the press last month (“What Does “Postliberalism” Mean?”, January 2026),…
While We’re At It
The Bible is flying off the shelves. Sales of the Good Book spiked 20 percent in…
The Wallet
Oxblood, bifold, kept In a back bedroomCloset all these years, It dates to my time Of adolescence, And has the…
Another Madonna
Many may not notice the young rabbit, caughtin the thicket of brush near the bottom left-hand corner,…
Birdwatching
The people I want most to like all do it. I listen to their talk of swifts and…
The Burial of the Faithful
You want a day as boring as a shrub, a high,…
Snowdrops
A gray ordeal,these winters wrapped in scarves…
