R. R. Reno is sympathetic to nationalism because he sees it as a reaction against disenchantment (“Return of the Strong Gods,” May). While I agree that “the banishment of love from our politics is creating the populism that presently troubles us,” it doesn’t strike me that this populism . . . . Continue Reading »
Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivityby james martin, s.j.harperone, 150 pages, $19.99 Is sodomy a sin? Perplexed readers of Fr. James Martin, S.J.’s latest book will want to put the question to him, . . . . Continue Reading »
On November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train. His suicide note provided no clear reason for his act; there were no apparent signs of mental illness, and he was . . . . Continue Reading »
A University of Chicago professor reflects on the idiosyncracies of teaching in the age of Trump and trigger warnings. Continue Reading »
If jihadist terrorism is to be defeated, the West will need Islam’s help. Continue Reading »
The Christian Colorado baker case may be decided by the answer to a deceptively simple question: What is society for? Continue Reading »
Economic life should be evaluated by higher criteria than market freedom, because so-called free markets are not free in the first place. Continue Reading »
Once we reject human exceptionalism, injustices like infanticide start to seem virtuous. Continue Reading »
Shakespeare in the Park reduced Julius Caesar from a morally complex political drama into a heavy-handed tale of progressivism. Continue Reading »
The Romanticism of nineteenth-century America provides crucial context for today’s Confederate-monument debates. Continue Reading »
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