February 2017
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The Devil and Hilary Mantel
By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the…
The Fantasy of Addiction
I never meant to start an argument about addiction. I had carried my private doubts on the…
Spiritual Freedom
On the outskirts of Moscow, there is an Orthodox Christian memorial. The site, known as Butovo, once…
Letter to a Campus Activist
You appear confident, but are unsure. You appear angry, but are afraid. You appear righteous, but are…
Chinese History Lessons
For most of the past three years, I have helped run a program for high school students…
Our Canaanite Woman
I made my first confession last month, and it was easier than I expected. Not that I…
Ye of Brittle Faith
On December 15, 2011, Christopher Hitchens died of esophageal cancer. Some remember him as a man of…
France’s Catholic Moment
Since France definitively adopted a republican form of government in 1870, ardent Catholics have rarely occupied the…
Letters
Protesting Malcolm Rivers concluded his article in the December issue (“The Protest”) with a reproach to today’s…
Absolute Reason
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Vols. I and IIedited and translated by edwin curleyprinceton, 1,544 pages, $66…
Benedict the Dissident
Last Testament: In His Own Words by benedict xvi with peter seewald bloomsbury, 288 pages, $24 A…
Briefly Noted
Bach & God by michael marissen oxford, 288 pages, $35 Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at…
Reformed Ressourcement
Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholicedited by michael allen and scott r. swainbaker, 416 pages,…
Experiments in Matrimony
Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage by stephen macedo princeton, 320 pages, $29.95…
America’s Fighting Faith
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interestby walter a. mcdougallyale,…
Gratitude for the Given
We often hear that conservatism comes from a sober recognition of limits—getting mugged by reality. We are…
The Invention of Pigs
Come our one great bushfirepigs, sty-released, declined to quittheir pavements of gravel and shit.Other beasts ran headlong,…
Stones
We carry our small griefs like stones in pockets.We rub them smooth with worry, thumb their coldsolidity,…
