Tomorrow, in “On the Square,” senior editor R.R. Reno will reflect on what Walt Whitman’s self-exaltation taught him about what he fears in our radically democratic culture.
In the meantime, vigorous discussions continue of Joseph Bottum’s They Did It from Friday and today’s Riding Away . The discussion of the first seems to have focused on the propriety of the death penalty and the implications of the writer’s view of modern government, that of the second on the real effects of college upon children.
Letters
Joshua T. Katz’s (“Pure Episcopalianism,” May 2025) reason for a theologically conservative person joining a theologically liberal…
The Revival of Patristics
On May 25, 1990, the renowned patristics scholar Charles Kannengiesser, S.J., delivered a lecture at the annual…
The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics
Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The…