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Essays

Hitler’s Second Coming

R. R. Reno

It was surreal. President Biden began his State of the Union speech by invoking the Nazi threat.…

The Case Against the Abortion Pill

Rachel Roth Aldhizer

Here is how I buried the body of my fifth child: I took myself to the emergency…

The Myth of White Christian Nationalism

Kenneth L. Woodward

In his first speech as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson sounded like a…

The Carthusians of Vermont

Mark Bauerlein

In a hollow just north of Bennington, Vermont, near the New York state line, nineteen monks at…

Faith and Russian Literature

Gary Saul Morson

Russians take positions to the extreme. As a result, Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may…

Opinion

Mere Priestesses

Blake Johnson

Controversy surrounds the disinvitation of Fr. Calvin Robinson from the closing panel of the Mere Anglicanism conference…

JD Vance, Religious Populist

Matthew Schmitz

For at least a generation, the phrase “religious right” has evoked a style of politics marked by…

To Catch a Plagiarist

Joshua T. Katz

The plagiarism wars have begun. Claudine Gay is out as president of Harvard, in large part because…

Coming and Going

Ephraim Radner

Disappearance is usually felt as something bad. When things disappear, we sense the pull of death, the…

Be Loud

Liel Leibovitz

The central commandment found in American etiquette Torah is this old chestnut: Never discuss religion or politics.…

Reviews

Boundaries of Belief

Edward Feser

The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account by guy mansini, o.s.b. catholic university of america, 192 pages,…

Dark Enchantment

N. S. Lyons

Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come by John Daniel Davidson Regnery,…

Phono Sapiens

Matthew Gasda

The Crisis of Narration by byung-chul han polity, 100 pages, $16.95 My friend J, a computer programmer,…

Arabian Knight

Algis Valiunas

Lawrence of Arabia: My Journey in Search of T. E. Lawrence by Ranulph Fiennes Pegasus Books, 352…

Briefly Noted

Various

Contemporary Music and Spirituality edited by robert sholl and sander van maas routledge, 364 pages, $170 There…

Poetry

The Gardener

Richard Tillinghast

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.—L. P. Hartley While drums pounded and…

In Search of a Psalm to Sing in Dark Times

Paul Mariani

What shall I say, Lord, now that the wordskeep stumbling, tumbling like loose marblesacross the table then…