To find the answer, you’ll have to come to this year’s Merton Lecture at Columbia University on Monday, October 17, which will be delivered by our editor, R. R. Reno. Following in the vein of some of his recent writing , the lecture will likely be deeply-considered and perhaps even a bit provocative.
This event is free and open to the public. It begins at 7:30 p.m. in St. Paul’s Chapel on the Columbia campus.
We look forward to seeing many of our readers from the New York area (and any other interested parties) there.
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