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Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

This is the third and final installment of an advice column for religious and social conservatives preparing…

More Advice For the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

This is the second installment of an advice column for religious and social conservatives preparing for the…

The Other Assisi

Matthew Milliner

We pilgrims pile into the Basilica of Saint Clare to see the San Damiano cross that spoke…

Some AdviceFor the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

On paper, tenure recommendations for humanities professors have three parts: research, teaching, service. That’s what the faculty…

James Stoddard’s Interior Castle

David Randall

James Stoddard ought to be famous for his Evenmere trilogy—The High House (1998), The False House (2000,…

Christian Freedom Amidst Persecution

Stephen Schwartz

Christianity and Freedom, Vol. II, Contemporary Perspectives edited by allen d. hertzke & timothy samuel shah cambridge,…

Beyoncé and the Fertility of Forgiveness

Leah Libresco Sargeant

The most screenshotted sequence in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade is “Hold Up.” After discovering her husband’s infidelity, she walks…

Calvin, Kuyper, and God’s Aesthetic Purposes

Richard J. Mouw

Abraham Kuyper was fond of appealing to John Calvin’s authority on various subjects, but when he turned…

A Bower in the Arsacides

Frederick Turner

A hippie peddles jewelryBeneath a poinciana tree,A mother picks her daughter upBacklit before an endless sea. All…

Queen of the May

Mary-Patrice Woehling

My Lady, Queen of Heaven, Queen of Earth,I weave for you a crown of white muguet.Delightful, fragrant,…

Your Grandmother’s Verse

Joseph S. Salemi

She writes it with a quill pen, so they say,On cream-smooth vellum (paper she refuses).A photo of…

Briefly Noted

Nathaniel Peters

The Thriving Society: On the Social Conditions of Human Flourishingedited by james r. stoner jr. and harold…

Double Ballade for History Repeated: Part One

Julie Steiner

Though sinners’ souls are shriven clear,the ravished aren’t restored.The Good News turns to Bad News nearthe raped,…

Double Ballade for History Repeated: Part Two

Julie Steiner

Too long, I too withheld my earfrom “slanderers” who pouredout tales of victimhood to smearthe servants of…

The Green and the Brown

Helen Rittelmeyer

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $30 F aced…