October 2019
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Letters—October 2019
Jurisprudence Hadley Arkes, echoing themes he has developed for many years in his work, offers a forceful…
This Catholic Moment
The current crisis in the global Church is not the worst crisis in Catholic history, but it…
The New American Right
What, exactly, do you want?” Liberal critics put the question to the post-fusionist American right in various…
The Outsider
I want to read something to you. I want you to really listen to this.” Rush Limbaugh…
Goodbye to “So What?”
The case for American nationalism is clear. The United States is the most diverse nation on earth.…
Embarrassed by Our Nations
Among conservatives today there is an emerging confidence about the nation. But it remains a timid confidence,…
Nationalism, Conservatism, and the E.U.
Whether we really have been observing a resurgence of nationalism in Europe is not at all clear.…
Catholicism Made Me Protestant
Like all accounts of God’s faithfulness, mine begins with a genealogy. In the late seventeenth century, my…
Spirituality of the Suburbs
Obituaries for Toni Morrison, who died on August 5, remember her as a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, a…
Two False Newmans
On October 13, Pope Francis will declare John Henry Newman a saint. Catholics from around the world…
Statesmen and Technocrats
Proportional representation used to be blamed for the collapse of the Weimar Republic: Too much fragmentation crippled…
Harrowing Hart on Hell
That All Shall Be Saved:Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvationby david bentley hart yale, 232 pages, $26 David…
FDR’s Faith
A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Rooseveltby john f. woolverton and james…
Liberalism as Luxury
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by adam gopnik basic, 272 pages, $28 Adam…
The Virtue of Prudence
In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper writes, “That is prudent which is in keeping with reality.”…
Christian Universalism and the Nation
Proposition #1: The Church is the agent of Christian universalism. Christianity requires no specific political form. It…
Mitzvah
A Saturday night, late February. Eileen and me / in the back of the cramped car, Julie…
A Distant Purple
Mid-September, dear woman, and the monarch / lights once more upon the purple panoplied / butterfly bush…
Deer Appear
Early in the morning deer appear / out of the dark, a flicker of eyes. / They…
But What of Us?
The saints are quick to give their hearts away / At every gentle prodding from above, /…
