Coming tomorrow in On the Square: first, R. R. Reno reflects on what Christianity in general and Catholicism in general brings to the modern university, and then David Goldman offers a Rooseveltian plan for increasing employment and challenging the unions.
Until then, you might want to look at this week’s offerings and the discussions that follow them: Joseph Bottum’s The Freeloader’s Culture , Elizabeth Scalia’s Love, Limits, and Loss , Joe Carter’s Our Abusive Balladeers , and George Weigel’s An Anniversary of Consequence .
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…