Aug/Sept 2025
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Letters
Joshua T. Katz’s (“Pure Episcopalianism,” May 2025) reason for a theologically conservative person joining a theologically liberal…
Engineers for the Gospel
About twenty years ago, a lecturer in philosophy stopped by my office in the Engineering Faculty. He…
Waugh Against the Fogeys
On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to a friend: “I am now preparing a…
The Future of Catholic Theology
About ten years ago I found myself in China teaching a weeklong philosophy seminar on the thought…
The King and the Swarm
The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of…
The Substance of Our Lives
While I was in college, the local priest got me to come along with him on his…
The Right to Be Killed
In the days surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., leaders of the civil rights movement…
No Chosen, No “Almost Chosen”
Mazal tov! Partisans on the left and on the right, fighting bitterly for a larger swath of…
Paul’s Ethnic Gospel
Grace, not race”—so goes the tidy maxim by which many modern interpreters characterize Paul’s gospel. In this…
The Post-Californian Ideology
On November 6, 1996, Al Gore called Peter Navarro to express his sympathy. Navarro, a left-leaning economics…
Ecumenical Fear and Loathing
Once upon a time, there was a culture that was split into two bitterly opposed parties. They…
Goodbye, Saffron
In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman wrote that the “people of the Middle…
Out of the Wilderness
When the agnostic Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch died, he asked that his funeral be conducted…
The Great Excommunicator
When Sam Tanenhaus agreed in 1998 to write a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., it would…
War on the Weak and a Bad Bishop
A case study in brain-dead deconsolidation: marijuana legalization. Marijuana has been legal in New York State since…
The Imperative of Reconsolidation
We often fail to recognize how deeply the traumas of the early twentieth century shaped American political…
While We’re At It
St. Augustine on our final end: “We shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise.”
Forecast
How long can two people stay togetherwith this in the news and that in the sky? A…
Second Death
Between our physical demise—when the soul, like a savedpage from a trashed notebook, lifts in the handof…
