October 2021
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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A Tale of Two Pregnancies
Most people who believe abortion to be wrong believe it to be wrong intrinsically. By contrast, those…
Abortion and Class
America’s abortion regime and the absolutist ideology that animates it is part of a war by the…
Family Policy After Roe
After half a century, the struggle against the cruel and radical abortion regime imposed on our society…
Literature of the Word
I have always been somewhat bemused by the perennial popularity of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s nineteenth—century…
Roe Must Fall: A Symposium
Since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, more than 60 million Americans have been…
Roe Will Go
Let me offer a prediction, free of any face-saving hedge: Next year, the Supreme Court will hold…
The Historical Adam
What historical claims does the Bible make about Adam and Eve? And is belief in a historical…
The Latin Mass
In mid-July, Pope Francis issued Traditionis Custodes, a motu proprio concerning what’s popularly known as the Latin…
The Radical Wrongness of Roe
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court created a constitutional right of some human beings to kill…
Anti-Jewish Entertainment
Have you watched the new Netflix drama everyone’s talking about? It’s riveting: It tells the story of…
Common Good Republicans
I experienced a bit of shock recently while attending a conference hosted by the Napa Institute. I…
Letters
The English Department Mark Bauerlein’s account of the English department’s decline in “Truth, Reading, Decadence” (June/July) makes…
My Confessions
A few years ago, in the middle of the journey of life—in modern terms, having a midlife crisis—I…
The Tragic Atheist
I painted to be loved.” That is how the artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) described his impulse to create.…
A Naive Heretic
Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobsby harry freedmanbloomsbury continuum, 304 pages, $35 The Talmud…
Briefly Noted
Mysteries of the Lord’s Prayer: Wisdom From the Early Churchby john gavin, s.j.cua, 192 pages, $24.95 So…
By Our Wounds We Are Healed
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Traumaby bessel van der kolkpenguin,…
How To Believe In Astrology
Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Laborby alice sparkly katnorth atlantic, 336 pages, $17.95 Does…
The Rolling Revolution
The Recovery of Family Life:Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologiesby scott yenorbaylor, 368 pages, $49.99 Norms about…
August Into Autumn
August is the silent time.Caroline Dormon, Bird Talk (1969) It happens every year almost the same And…
Beneath the Glass
An arching bridge that spans a crystal streamAttracts attention. People tend to pause,To gaze beneath the surface…
