Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Magdalena
M agdalena loves potatoes. Doesn’t matter what kind. Red, yellow, Idaho, Irish, boiled, baked, or mashed. French-fried…
Pessimism of the West
Western civilization exerts unprecedented influence. Science commands the intellectual loyalty of elites around the world. Western strands…
The Exile of a Moment
Clouds like ice broken on the surface of a lake,Shifting forms of Pangaea that gravitate towards the…
The Road to Revolution
The classic theory of revolution was formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville, who observed in The Ancien Régime…
The Shema
I recently read an interview with a writer who is, like me, in her mid-eighties. I was…
Yoga: It’s About You
The word “yoga” has long had many meanings. In the 1899 Monier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary, it is defined…
A Priest Ponders, On His Anniversary
Another year has passed. Does your first Mass seemlike yesterday? Such bliss, so rapturous, mustneeds spring forth…
Anti-American Exceptionalism
To Begin the World Over Again:How the American Revolution Devastated the Globeby matthew lockwood yale, 512 pages,…
Becket and His Critics
The late philosopher Roger Scruton once told a Guardian journalist that he thought he had been “too…
Beyond the Grave
The idea that one can report on one’s own death is paradoxical, if not preposterous. As Epicurus…
Briefly Noted
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bookedited by james raven oxford, 480 pages, $39.95 This handsomely produced…
Christmas Sonnet
My oldest son worked hard to rake the leavesInto a corner of our yard. Proud to proveWhat…
Clean Hands
From the 1940s until his death in 1986, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was the most prominent authority on…
L’affaire Voltaire
Americans know little of Voltaire. French high-schoolers, by contrast, know him the way we once knew Thoreau…
Letters
Political Christianity I appreciated Sohrab Ahmari’s generous review of my book Live Not by Lies (“Resist in…
