October 2026

We welcome letters to the editor. Letters appear two issues after the article to which they are…

I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was…

Humanae vitae remains alive, if not entirely well, fifty-eight years after its promulgation. When Pope Paul VI…

Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party,…

Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature…

Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening.…

Every now and then, a work of art comes along that helps us think through the thicket…

Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New…

Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in…

I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As…

Imagine that you work as a janitor in the office building of a large corporation. One evening…

The World’s Reformation is a splendid achievement. Extensively researched, Alec Ryrie’s book covers an extraordinary global scope,…

Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of…

The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does…

The big news story of early August was Jason Arday. Appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University…

In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your…

♦︎ The Republican Party and the Trump White House protect and promote vice industries that exploit Americans,…

He thought he saw her in the orchid houseand all the flowers seemed to disappear,but someone with…

God never gives us more than we can take,”the midwife told us, after catching two—two—heartbeats in your…