October 2020
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The Woke Script
It was late May and early June. Black Lives Matter protests were gripping cities across the nation.…
Suicide of the Liberals
Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing incompatible ideologies competed (and…
Style Reveals the Man
Writing cannot be taught, as I came to realize after attempting to teach it for thirty years…
Prudence in the Pandemic
We do not exercise moral judgment in the same manner in every instance. Broadly, there are three…
Going Further
A year ago, with my two small granddaughters in tow, I visited a friend in an assisted…
Letters
True Communion I much appreciated Nathaniel Peters’s discussion of spiritual communion through the lens of William of…
Restoration and Desecration
I n recent years, reports have appeared in the media of art restorations so appalling they produce…
Lamb to the Slaughter
George Frazier had a story about the first time he met John O’Hara. The journalist and clotheshorse…
Monumental Contrast
In the annals of monumental sculpture, James Earle Fraser’s equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt hardly ranks as…
The Anti-Romantic
What Éric Rohmer said of one of his characters could be said of him as well: He…
Invisible Men and Women
Non-Jews often wonder about the value of close study of Jewish law. To the outsider it can…
A Warning to the Pro-Life Movement
Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Presentby mary ziegler cambridge, 326 pages,…
Against Racialism
How to Be an Antiracistby ibram x. kendi one world, 320 pages, $27 White Fragility: Why It’s…
The Catholic Future
The Next Pope:The Office of Peter and a Church in Missionby george weigel ignatius, 141 pages, $19.95…
Bookings to Utopia
Stalingrad by vasily grossman translated by robert chandler and elizabeth chandler nyrb classics, 1088 pages, $27.95 Until…
Red Terror
The Cultural Revolution:A People’s History, 1962–1976by frank dikötter bloomsbury, 432 pages, $20 As American society was roiled…
Briefly Noted
A Time to Die:Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Lifeby nicolas diat ignatius, 174 pages, $17.95 Nicolas…
Universal Horror
“Hollywood Movie Posters is the oldest memorabilia store in the world located in the same location with…
Dark Mercy
“Hast thy dark descending and most art merciful then.”Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland You…
October Twilight
The sky pools red this Hallowtide.We enter, ease into a pew,And whisper prayers for those who died,For…
Covenant Prayer
I am no longer mine but wholly yours,so wield me as you will: assign my rankamong the…
