June/July 2022
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A Gentler Christendom
with a response byEdmund Waldsteinand reply by Ross Douthat How should contemporary Christians react to the decline of…
All We Need Is Everything
Edmund Waldstein responds to Ross Douthat’s article “A Gentler Christendom.” Ross Douthat replies to Edmund Waldstein in,…
Architecture of Repair
Although Christopher Alexander, who died this year on March 17, was officially an architect, the significance of…
State of Emergency
Whether we describe our current condition in terms of postmodernism, neoliberalism, or globalization, the core problem is…
The Shadow of Failure
Ross Douthat replies to Edmund Waldstein’s article “All We Need Is Everything,” which is a response to…
Transgenderism: Escaping Limits
The progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new…
Alternative Realities
The multiverse is upon us! Everywhere you turn in popular culture these days, it seems like the…
Incarnate Worship
In the first, surreal weeks of the lockdowns of 2020, we all marveled at how COVID had…
Letters
Catholic Fiction Cassandra Nelson’s “A Theology of Fiction” (April) is a welcome intervention and advance in an…
On the Ukrainian Border
I doubt if we ever come back home,” says Helen, who until recently taught English to second- and…
The Death and Life of Italian Families
Italy, once the country of large families with many children, is today a country of the elderly.…
Transfigured by the Word
Toward the end of his short life, Anton Chekhov penned one of his shortest stories, “The Student.”…
Denizens of Concord
The Transcendentalists and Their Worldby robert a. grossfarrar, straus and giroux, 864 pages, $40 Why concord? That’s…
Let’s Fight
Bullies and Saints:An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian Historyby john dicksonzondervan, 352 pages,…
Regime Change, American Style
Watergate: A New Historyby garrett m. graffsimon & schuster, 832 pages, $35 The Watergate scandal began in…
What Sex Really Is
The Right to Sex:Feminism in the Twenty-First Centuryby amia srinivasanfarrar, straus and giroux, 304 pages, $28 In…
Painting Over the Growth Chart
I had to squint to notice them. The linesthat bicker up to door jamb in the kitchen—…
Possum
On feet bare like a desert saint’s, it padsacross the porch and toward the dry cat foodmy…
The Wheel, The Wheel
Sixteen and a half with a brand new driver’slicense in my wallet, driving my father’s’47 two-toned old…
