In Cult Complex , today’s second “On the Square” article, Ashley Samelson McGuire of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty gives a survey of the ways in which governments try to limit religious freedom by redefining religions as cults or associations or ideologies. France, for example, does this, and some Americans once tried to do it to Catholics. This is, she writes, something to know about and oppose.
The Classroom Heals the Wounds of Generations
“Hope,” wrote the German-American polymath Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, “is the deity of youth.” Wholly dependent on adults, children…
Still Life, Still Sacred
Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human…
Letters
I am writing not to address any particular article, but rather to register my concern about the…