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Essays

Engines of Destruction

R. R. Reno

Two pivotal developments will transform the West. One is mass migration, which, in tandem with declining birthrates,…

The Desecration of Man

Carl R. Trueman

This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the lectures that became C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition…

Self-Abuse

Patricia Snow

The Catholic way is to include, and then sift: wise words from a wise priest that I…

From Occupy to Wall Street

Philip Pilkington

On June 9, 2011, Kalle Lasn, an Estonian-Canadian activist and filmmaker, registered the web address OccupyWallStreet.org. Lasn…

A Visit to Fr. Zinon

John P. Burgess

Down a deeply rutted dirt road, far from Russia’s centers of power and wealth, sits a small…

Opinion

Letters

Various

Invisible Influences I appreciated Mark Bauerlein’s recent essay “System’s Failure” (November 2023) on some of the many…

The Undying People

Meir Y. Soloveichik

The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us…

Rossetti the Unmodern

Brian Patrick Eha

Life wreathes flowers for death to wear. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), who said as much, is dead…

Commonsense Morality

Robert T. Miller

As has become distressingly clear, many people blame the Israelis for the atrocities that Hamas terrorists perpetrated…

The Fullness of Time

Ephraim Radner

How long, O Lord? The question is posed repeatedly by the Psalmist. It continues to be posed…

Pagan Hamas

Liel Leibovitz

Addressing senior SS officers in Poznań on October 4, 1943, Heinrich Himmler was in a cheerful mood.…

Reviews

BAP’s Confusions

Dustin Sebell

Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy by costin alamariuindependently published, 368 pages, $29.69 Costin Alamariu, also…

Liberalism’s Cold War

Matthew Schmitz

Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Timesby samuel moynyale university, 240 pages,…

Witness to Modernity

James F. Keating

Confession of a Catholic Worker:Our Current Moment of Christian Witnessby larry s. chappignatius, 224 pages, $17.95 Sooner…

The Verdict on Judgment

G. E. M. Lippiatt

I Judge No One:A Political Life of Jesusby david lloyd dusenburyoxford university, 312 pages, $35 Who am…

Poetry

Providence

Catherine Savage Brosman

For pleasure, Fortune, a designer, weaves.We are her stuff—yarn, thread, and loom, ideal.Her tapestry seems flawless; she…

Søren

Amit Majmudar

He is a churchyard. In his grasses, crossesHave blossomed once again, like quartered rosesThat know the real…

Climate

Sarah Rossiter

Where I live drought desecrates,Heat scorches fields, crops wither,Wasted while elsewhere floodsDevour bridges to rip asunderFriend and…

After the Funeral

J. C. Scharl

So that is all life is: a darkening trail;a coin once flipped and idly caught again;a former…