January 2024

Engines of Destruction
Two pivotal developments will transform the West. One is mass migration, which, in tandem with declining birthrates,…
The Desecration of Man
This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the lectures that became C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition…
Self-Abuse
The Catholic way is to include, and then sift: wise words from a wise priest that I…
From Occupy to Wall Street
On June 9, 2011, Kalle Lasn, an Estonian-Canadian activist and filmmaker, registered the web address OccupyWallStreet.org. Lasn…
A Visit to Fr. Zinon
Down a deeply rutted dirt road, far from Russia’s centers of power and wealth, sits a small…
Letters
Invisible Influences I appreciated Mark Bauerlein’s recent essay “System’s Failure” (November 2023) on some of the many…
The Undying People
The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us…
Rossetti the Unmodern
Life wreathes flowers for death to wear. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), who said as much, is dead…
Commonsense Morality
As has become distressingly clear, many people blame the Israelis for the atrocities that Hamas terrorists perpetrated…
The Fullness of Time
How long, O Lord? The question is posed repeatedly by the Psalmist. It continues to be posed…
Pagan Hamas
Addressing senior SS officers in Poznań on October 4, 1943, Heinrich Himmler was in a cheerful mood.…
BAP’s Confusions
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy by costin alamariuindependently published, 368 pages, $29.69 Costin Alamariu, also…
Liberalism’s Cold War
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Timesby samuel moynyale university, 240 pages,…
Witness to Modernity
Confession of a Catholic Worker:Our Current Moment of Christian Witnessby larry s. chappignatius, 224 pages, $17.95 Sooner…
The Verdict on Judgment
I Judge No One:A Political Life of Jesusby david lloyd dusenburyoxford university, 312 pages, $35 Who am…
Providence
For pleasure, Fortune, a designer, weaves.We are her stuff—yarn, thread, and loom, ideal.Her tapestry seems flawless; she…
Søren
He is a churchyard. In his grasses, crossesHave blossomed once again, like quartered rosesThat know the real…
Climate
Where I live drought desecrates,Heat scorches fields, crops wither,Wasted while elsewhere floodsDevour bridges to rip asunderFriend and…
After the Funeral
So that is all life is: a darkening trail;a coin once flipped and idly caught again;a former…