November 2018
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Common Good Conservatism
Countless commentators have observed that the public square is polarized. Political speech has become barbed. The once…
A False Paradigm
So much for the “new paradigm.” With the Church now mired in its most severe crisis since…
Reclaiming the Household
The decline of the family has roots in the demise of the household. While the two realities…
The Rav
Twenty-five years ago this past April (20 Nisan 5753), thousands of Jews, their affiliations ranging across and…
Briefly Noted
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Booksby karen swallow priorbrazos, 272 pages, $19.99 In…
The Proper Business of Mankind
Elijah, the great scholar (Gaon) of Vilna in the eighteenth century, is synonymous with total devotion to…
Muslims in American Politics
In the summer of 2017, something unusual happened at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) annual…
Peter Damian’s Counsel
Sometime during the second half of the year 1049, Peter Damian, prior of the hermitage of Fonte…
Mary Among Evangelicals
When I was three years old, I asked my pregnant mother whether Jesus could come into me…
Letters
Geoffrey Hill Like Garrick Davis (“Geoffrey Hill, Prodigal,” August/September), I too had the fortune of having Geoffrey…
Historical-Critical Qur’an
The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentaryby gabriel said reynoldsyale, 1032 pages, $40 This book is misleadingly…
The Monster’s Servant
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Lifeby diarmaid maccullochviking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At…
Every Square Inch
Pro Rege: Living Under Christ’s KingshipVol. 1: The Exalted Nature of Christ’s KingshipVol. 2: The Kingship of…
In Rare Form
Devotionsby timothy murphynorth dakota state, 192 pages, $24.95 Not a knee is padded in Timothy Murphy’s new collection.…
Corporate Progressivism
From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriageby darel e. paulbaylor, 256 pages, $39.95…
The Banality of Evil
“Evil is ‘thought-defying,’ because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment…
11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour (Armistice 100)
10:59. The seconds slowly trudgeOver the top of the eleventh hourWhen shells and whiz bangs cease their…
Nones on Sunday
One day I woke up and became a None;It gave me lots more time to think and…
Votive
Saint Joseph’s Oratory, Montreal.Between the crypt and dark magmatic rockof the mountain’s flank, along a blue-domed hallone…
