January 2020

Faith & Fertility Darel E. Paul offers an elegant explication of Eric Kaufmann’s complex ethno-political projection of…

In 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is…

I am not altogether incurious, but one entity about which I have over the years felt little…

In 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was received into the Catholic Church.…

Shorthand is convenient, but sometimes it confuses. In the game of telephone, by which ideas evolve through…

I grew up in northern Italy, in a Catholic household. For us, as for many Italian families, being…

Keeping a straight face, I’m going to argue that American popular comedy has lost the virtue of…

As we watch the mostly white officials of the Democratic party pander to black Americans with talk…

North by Northwest’s style is so impeccable, its tone so effervescent, that many viewers fail to grasp…

Teshuva means return, and return in the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish legal tradition means return to…

The Testamentsn nby margaret atwoodn ntalese, 432 pages, $28.95 Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in…

The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman Worldnedited by sabine r. huebner and christian laesnncambridge,…

The Puritans: A Transatlantic Historynby david d. hallnnprinceton, 520 pages, $35 When Greta Thunberg, the teenage Green…

Churchill: Walking With Destinynby andrew robertsnnviking, 1152 pages, $40 Speaking to his friend Frederick Lindemann in the…

Jacob’s Ladder: The Unauthorised Biography of Jacob Rees-Moggby michael ashcroft biteback, 352 pages, £20 On February 2,…

One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Grahamby grant wacker eerdmans, 256 pages, $24.99 The…

In this issue, Oren Cass explodes the false dichotomy between cultural questions and economic ones (“The Problem…

I asked my friend, the poet, / how she was getting by. / “Work and tears,” /…

At Chartres, we see the stained glass windows slump / from centuries of gravity, becoming / thicker…

For the fire that answers the covering dark, / For every marriage that ends in faith, /…

The briar draws a perfect bead of blood / to tender flesh as my dog pulls his…

The power-cut candle’s wobbly precision / ushers the church hall back into vision. / We assembled them…

Your eyes sparkled. And there was playfulness / In your smile that veiled your age, / Softening…

We stand in crooked lines outside the gate, / Where my new bride and I map out…

He tells himself a tale his grandmother told: / Babuschka sleeps by the fire. Outside new snow...