June/July 2024
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Diagnosing Disaster
Why Did We Destroy Europe?” It’s an arresting title, chosen by Michael Polanyi for a 1970 essay…
Pro-Life Politics After Dobbs
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a great victory for the pro-life cause. Prior to the…
The Last Sanctuary
During my first year in medical practice, some of the older doctors criticized me for not wearing…
Stay in My Heart
On a spring day seven years ago I was driving across Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn feeling…
Theology of Immigration
Speaking to a gymnasium full of high schoolers in 2015, Angela Merkel sought to explain why Germany…
Letters – July 2024
The Catholic University Matthew Schmitz aptly describes “Biden’s Collegiate Catholicism” (April 2024) in two senses. First, Biden’s…
Faithful and Invisible
On December 18, 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the declaration Fiducia Supplicans,…
The New Midlife Crisis
Check all the boxes, then chuck it all aside at forty to follow your muse. Play by…
Hope for the Organization Kid
Twenty-three years ago, David Brooks published in The Atlantic a long essay based on interviews with Princeton…
Those People
Sometimes I will exclaim, when dealing with irritating and difficult people on the phone, “What’s wrong with…
Renewing the Covenant
Good news, fellow Americans: It’s civil war time! The violence, praise the Lord, unfurls exclusively on the…
Damaged Goods
Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty by ephraim radner baker, 280 pages, $36.99 What is the purpose…
The End of Prestige
True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church by francis x. maier ignatius, 284…
Criminal Omissions
Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal by matthew t. martens crossway, 416 pages, $34.99 Matthew Martens, a…
Raw Deal
Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by batya ungar-sargon encounter, 264 pages,…
The Fanfic Temptation
Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi Astra, 224 pages, $26 A few months ago, an old school friend…
Briefly Noted — 7/24
Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship by meir y. soloveichik encounter, 232 pages, $29.99 If…
Our Daughter Beside the Sea: Blue Hill, Maine
The seaside rock she sits on shines a blaze of purple shell and matte-glazed films of moss.She…
At Blackmere
My trachea’s a well that draws up pailsOf cloudy rainwater, my bronchiolesRivulets in a fen, my lungs…
Today the Weather
Today the weather brings to mindthe nature of the curved line,the many ways we measure time,the drawing…
Costa Maya
At Costa Maya, in the Yucatan,we walked the yellow jetty from the ship,with throngs of other visitors,…
