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Essays

Success Is Not Dignity

R. R. Reno

Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam is worried about America. He should be. As Charles Murray put it in…

Sex and Danger at UVA

Vigen Guroian

This past November, Rolling Stone magazine published an article that told the story of a gang rape…

Lessons in Statecraft

George Weigel

When the Catholic Church celebrated the canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII on…

The Great Interpreter

Michael Stokes Paulsen

The single most important event of constitutional interpretation in American history was the Civil War. The war…

Solzhenitsyn’s Red Wheel

Daniel J. Mahoney

n It is not uncommon for readers of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s final novel, The Red Wheel, to draw…

Opinion

Letters

Various

MARRIAGE “The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage” (March) is a clear articulation of the importance…

Traditio Deformis

David Bentley Hart

The long history of defective Christian scriptural exegesis occasioned by problematic translations is a luxuriant one, and…

The Screen and the Book

Marc Barnes

Books are solid. This is at once a physical description and a metaphysical one, and it is…

Hitting the Gym

James Mumford

I am not attracted to the men at the gym; I just want to look like them. As…

Orthodox Terrorism

Mykhailo Cherenkov

Long before Russia’s annexation of Crimea and unproclaimed war in the Donbass, Ukraine had become a religious…

Reviews

Radical Rupture

Molly Oshatz

The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution
 by john w. compton
 harvard, 272 pages, $45 The Constitution…

Heavenly Treasure

Gary A. Anderson

The Ransom of the Soul: 
Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
 by peter brown 
harvard, 288…

Schubert Revived

Heather Mac Donald

Fierrabras
 composed by franz schubert 
performed at the 2014 salzburg festival In the world of opera today,…

Taking A Life

Elizabeth Corey

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
 by katha pollitt 
picador, 272 pages, $25 It’s easy to be a charitable…

A Student’s Memoir

Mark Bauerlein

Why Not Say What Happened: 
A Sentimental Education 
by morris dickstein
 norton, 320 pages, $27.95 For nearly…

Poetry

The Power of Love

John Whitworth

When I go walking on the street My Guardian Angel walks behind. I hear the rustling of…

Annuncio

Susan Lefler

Into utter silence came the word,not even the rustle of a mouse, nor bird beyond her window,…