Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Virgil in Limbo
“There is a place down there, not saddened by torments but only by darkness, where the laments…
Music in the Death Camps
The Hatred of Musicby pascal quignardyale university press, 216 pages, $26 Pascal Quignard’s The Hatred of Music…
Samurai Nationalism
Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespearean masterpiece Ran (1985) shows how even the most universal stories must find purchase and…
The Conservative Christian Case for Single-Payer Healthcare
Caring for one another’s bodies, particularly the bodies of the vulnerable, is one of the most profound…
Misunderstood Missionaries
Karen Swallow Prior’s very interesting forthcoming book The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, & Metaphors Created a…
Men Without Memories
Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Storyby timothy…
Does the Church of England Need Evangelicals?
Does the Church of England need evangelicals? The question is now a pressing one, given that the…
Human Composting and the Christian
Earlier this year, the state of New York legalized human composting. This procedure, also called “natural organic…
What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023
Mark BauerleinrnrnContributing Editor Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education has an unfortunate pertinence to 2023 America, at least to the ranks…
What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023
Mark Bauerlein Contributing Editor Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education has an unfortunate pertinence to 2023 America, at least to the…
Israel’s Great Compromise
Ambiguity holds a storied place in the annals of Israeli decision-making. Historically, proponents of Israel’s self-definition as…
The New Intolerance
Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisitedby mary eberstadtrnrnforeword by cardinal george pellrnrnignatius, 199 pages, $19.95 Very…
Medicating the Masses
In a recent piece for City Journal, Lee Siegel notes the “emotional blunting” he has encountered among…
St. Patrick’s Day Tunes
We are pleased to offer you a smattering of Irish tunes for the feast of St. Patrick.…
Cohen’s Hallelujah
Ah I don’t believe you’d like it, rnrnYou wouldn’t like it here. rnrnThere ain’t no entertainment rnrnand the judgements are…
