Theology

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A Different Kind of Pride Flag

Carter Skeel

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What Émile Zola’s Nana Can Teach Our Liberated Age

Algis Valiunas

Of the great nineteenth-century French novelists, Victor Hugo still enjoys a certain renown in America, thanks to…

Why the LA Dodgers Chose Anti-Catholicism

Raymond J. de Souza

Where have you gone, Vin Scully? Dodger nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Is it possible…

Stay Outside

Ephraim Radner

When I first moved to Toronto, I used to pass a certain office building on my way…

The Continuing Relevance of the Donatist Controversy

Gilbert Meilaender

Perhaps only a few potential readers are interested enough in an essay titled “The Continuing Relevance of…

Angel of New York

John Byron Kuhner

On days when the world to me is desolation; when I cannot sit in my seat, or…

Benedict’s Dilemma

Sam Zeno Conedera

In his 2005 Christmas address to the Roman Curia, the recently elected Pope ­Benedict XVI said that…

Briefly Noted — 7/23

Various

Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life by dana gioia paul dry, 184 pages,…

Christ-Like Holden Caulfield

Lee Siegel

When I recently ventured to say to an old acquaintance of mine, an academic mandarin who teaches…

Defining Religion in the Court

Mark Movsesian

Here is a snapshot that captures an increasingly important issue in law and religion in the United…

Don’t Spare the Rod

Daniel Buck

I teach in the most crime-ridden neighborhood in my city. I am not the best teacher in…

Fukuyama v. Fukuyama

Nathan Pinkoski

Liberalism and Its Discontentsby francis fukuyamafarrar, straus and giroux, 192 pages, $26 To the general public, Francis…

He Was Afraid, and Began to Sink, and Cried Out

John Talbot

Peter: you doubt, you sink. Your waveringPetrifies. Remember even the heavingSea keeps faith with those that keep…

Kafka’s Trials

Theodore Dalrymple

The Diaries of Franz Kafkatranslated by ross benjaminschocken, 704 pages, $45 The job of a translator is…

Litany of the Cross

Ross McCullough

Save us, O Holy Cross. Signpost of the times,Gnomon of the age,Axes of creation,Save us, O Holy…