October 2023
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Free and Conservative
Avik Roy and John Hood recently launched what they hope will be a movement, Freedom Conservatism. In…
Tarkovsky’s Sublime Terror
Andrei rublev, the masterpiece of the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, opens with a failed attempt to…
The Fateful Nineties
For Americans, the 1990s are both the most sharply defined and the most fuzzily understood of modern…
The Road to Stella Maris
When Cormac McCarthy died in June at age eighty-nine, the news touched off grief and adulation such…
We Are Repaganizing
There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019…
An Offer We Must Refuse
In his masterwork, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche’s mythic hero carries a message—“God is dead!”—throughout the earth,…
God and the Bomb
The best movie you’ll see this year—or, if I’m being honest, this decade—is about two men having…
Letters
Court Religion It was good to see Mark Movsesian (“Defining Religion in the Court,” June/July 2023) tackle…
Sinéad O’Connor’s Cross
Sinéad O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer-songwriter, died in July at age fifty-six. No cause of death has…
Voice of the Voiceless
We all seem to be desperately searching for roots. From the fussy private pastime of Ancestry.com, to…
Briefly Noted — 10/23
Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interestedby eva brannpaul dry, 612 pages, $29.95 At ninety-four years old, Eva Brann…
Leisure and Liberality
Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Lifeby kevin hood garycambridge, 200 pages,…
Power Failure
Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About Itby sohrab ahmaripenguin random house, 288…
The Church’s Revolutions
Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francisby john t. mcgreevyw. w. norton, 528…
Zero Gravity History
The World: A Family History of Humanityby simon sebag montefioreknopf, 1,344 pages, $45 Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The…
