Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Sex in the One State
The most important book you can read right now is a little (and little-known) Russian novel titled…
Moving in the Right Direction
Missiles are flying and drones are attacking in Eastern Ukraine. Suicides are up. Fertility rates are down.…
Sleeping on the Ground
During the two years before my Catholic conversion, I spent several nights sleeping on the open ground…
The Simplest Jew
Once upon a time, goes an old Hasidic tale, the great Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev was…
Anti-Natal Engineering
Birth rates in South Korea are cratering. That country’s birth dearth demonstrates that men and women can…
Saving The King’s College
My alma mater, The King’s College in New York City, is in danger of closing. This small…
John Paul II and Me (and the Poles)
In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated congressman, John Steven…
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…
Bumbling Intelligence
A Question of Standing: The History of the CIAby rhodri jeffreys-jonesoxford, 320 pages, $27.95 A secret government institution…
What Descartes Thought About the Eucharist
Check out the typical textbook treatment of Eucharistic theology, and you’ll find a précis of Augustine, Aquinas, Luther,…
The Myth of Empress Elisabeth
Elisabeth, empress of Austria and queen of Hungary (1837–1898), has been the muse of many a filmmaker.…
God’s Saboteurs
This week, Conversations with Mark Bauerlein revisits some of its favorite conversations. Refresh your memory of Rod…
Cardinal George Pell: The Encourager
On Tuesday, January 3, when Cardinal George Pell and I went to pay our respects to Pope…
Calendars of My Life
The first column of a new year should come with an attendant ritual, should it not? We’ll…
No Mercy Without Rules
Announcing the death of Benedict XVI on its Saturday front page, the New York Times drew a…
