Arts & Letters
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Protestants Need to Go Back to Basics
Last Monday I had the pleasure of delivering the opening lecture for the newly-founded Center for Classical…
On Moral Diffidence and Scarlet Letters
As someone who worked for decades toward the reconciliation of Christians and Jews, I am deeply disquieted…
In Support of Jimmy Lai
As chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, John Lee is the principal enforcer of…
Classical Education Is Not a Right-Wing Project
Recently a book of mine underwent a perplexing treatment in the New York Review of Books. Normally…
The Grave Sin of Jew-Hatred
Shortly after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, I noted in this column and elsewhere that the…
Calling Western Civilization to Its Senses
The venue for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, held Oct. 30–Nov. 1 in…
A Prodigal
. . . If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. —Psalm 139: 8…
Catholics Against Anti-Semitism
On October 7, the terrorist organization Hamas decided to follow the Nazi playbook once more. As one…
The Songbook of the New Christian Right
From the beginning, the biblical Psalter has been the church’s main hymnal. Christians in the Book of…
I Bought A Haunted Bookshop
If you are ever in Steubenville, Ohio, that plucky burg of seedy steel mills and fresh-faced Catholic…
The Synod on Synodality at the Halfway Point
The Synod on Synodality meeting this month is the first of a two-part synodal assembly; the second…
Letters From the Synod 2023: #11
INSIDE THE SYNOD: AN IMBALANCED ECCLESIAL ECOSYSTEM There are some 1,378,000,000 Catholics on Planet Earth today. They…
When Newman Left Oxford
The ancient city of Oxford is a picturesque but cluttered little town of narrow cobblestoned streets lined…
Solidarity With a Martyr-Church
Ever since the 1596 Union of Brest re-established full communion between the Bishop of Rome and several…
The Cost of Defeating Identity Politics
Last month, while on a highway in Wisconsin, I flipped on the radio and heard a voice…
