Arts & Letters

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Providence at Work in Poland

Raymond J. de Souza

The Church—chiefly in Poland—marked the first feast day of Blessed Stefan Wyszyński this past Saturday, May 28,…

Ruth Amid the Alien Corn

Stuart Halpern

On Shavuot, which begins Saturday evening, June 4, Jews around the world will read the Book of…

The Real History of Paganism

Francis Young

  Queens of the Wild:Pagan Goddesses In Christian Europe:An Investigationby ronald huttonyale, 256 pages, $25 The number of…

The Wheel, The Wheel

Paul Mariani

Sixteen and a half with a brand new driver’slicense in my wallet, driving my father’s’47 two-toned old…

The Children Who Kill Children

Samuel D. James

Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, was thirty-six when he began his bombing campaign. Charles Manson was likely…

Michael Lewis on the Architecture of Repair

R. R. Reno

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Michael Lewis to discuss his article from the June/July 2022…

Distinctly Catholic Education

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Dan Guernsey, a senior fellow…

Takeaways from the Debate over Tim Keller’s “Third Way”

Justin Lee

Bulverism is perhaps the laziest of all rhetorical gambits. When C. S. Lewis coined the term in…

Why We Hunger for Beauty

Francis X. Maier

This essay is excerpted and adapted from comments delivered on April 29 at the Scala Foundation’s conference…

Atmosphere

James Matthew Wilson

The snow this morning falls on brook and rushIn great flakes wending slantwise without purpose,The sky above…

Ensnared in the Web

Michael Toscano

About ten years ago, I acquired a deep suspicion of smartphones and social media. Riding a late-night…

Ronald Dworkin on the Politics of Unhappiness

R. R. Reno

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Ronald Dworkin to discuss his article from the May print…

Baylor University Charters LGBTQ Group

Carl R. Trueman

The news that Baylor University has officially chartered Prism, an LGBT student organization on campus, marks an…

The Renaissance of the Classical School

James Hankins

We have been hearing a lot in recent months about a staffing crisis in district public schools,…

The Plight of the Millennial Woman

Veronica Clarke

The following contains spoilers for The Worst Person in the World.  Critics are hailing Joachim Trier’s The…