October 2026
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Letters—October 2026
I’m grateful for Stephan Pax Leonard’s essay on his conversion to Orthodoxy (“Why I Became Orthodox,” June/July…
Seven Years Alone on Wildcat Mountain
I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was…
Living Humanae Vitae in Poland
Humanae Vitae remains alive, if not entirely well, fifty-eight years after its promulgation. When Pope Paul VI…
The Making of Roger Scruton
Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party,…
Why the AfD Wins
Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature…
The Left Is Right About the Bible
“Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New…
Creedal Orthodoxy Won’t Save Us
Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in…
Friendly Neighborhood Philosopher
Every now and then, a work of art comes along that helps us think through the thicket…
Talkin’ God and Football
Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening.…
How Not to Defend Reading
Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of…
The Protestant Missions History Forgot
The World’s Reformation is a splendid achievement. Extensively researched, Alec Ryrie’s book covers an extraordinary global scope,…
The “Right to Die” Will Be The Death of Solidarity
Imagine that you work as a janitor in the office building of a large corporation. One evening…
Harold Bloom Sold Western Civilization Short
I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As…
Life and Death in AI
In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your…
The Stench of Corruption
The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does…
The Ivory Tower Is Falling
The big news story of early August was Jason Arday. Appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University…
While We’re At It
The Republican Party and the Trump White House protect and promote vice industries that exploit Americans, especially…
Lethe
He thought he saw her in the orchid house / and all the flowers seemed to disappear...
On Suddenly Having Several Children
"God never gives us more than we can take,” / the midwife told us, after catching...
