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Canon and Communio
In her essay in Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine, Mary Doak unpacks some features of a…
Prince’s Poo
Dan Piepenbring comments briefly in The Paris Review on a bizarre fashion trend of the eighteenth century: …
The OlivierBrando
Reflecting on the retirement of actor Daniel Day-Lewis at Variety, Owen Gleiberman suggests that “What retired . .…
Finding Your Voice
My son Woelke sent this along, from Louis Menand: The real basis for the metaphor of voice in…
Shakespeare and Montaigne
In the course of reviewing Philippe Desan’s Montaigne: A Life, Jane Kramer speculates on the fraught question…
Sex in Eden
Stephen Greenblatt writes in The New Yorker about “How St. Augustine Invented Sex.” How typical of The New…
Tragedy of Asa
King Asa of Judah made a strong start, purging the land of idols, altars, and images, and…
Under the Kanun
Bessian Vorpsi, a young writer from Tirana, makes headlines in the Albanian capital when he decides to spend…
Mystery Play
In his quirky little essay on Benedict XVI, The Mystery of Evil, Giorgio Agamben cites Odo Casel’s…
Oneself in Another
In his study of The Power of God in the Trinitarian theology of Gregory of Nyssa, Michel Rene…
Nationless States
In an essay contributed to Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine, Capodistrias Hammerli looks at and…
Jehoshaphat’s Betrayal
Ahab of Israel pops into Chronicles for the first time in 2 Chronicles 18. Readers of Chronicles…
Unseen Warrior
Back in December, Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors scored 60 points in a game. That’s…
Generous Good
In Enneads 5.143, Plotinus reasons: “If the First is perfect, the most perfect of all, and the…
Father God
Pagans called Zeus “Father,” but, according to Joseph Ratzinger (The God of Jesus Christ), “they meant that…
