November 2024
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The End of the Age of Hitler
A century ago, the most potent moral figure in the West was Jesus Christ. Believers and unbelievers…
Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution
In the fall of 1970, a year after Yale welcomed its first female freshmen and six months…
Actually Existing Postliberalism
Twentieth-century civilization has collapsed. It rested on an essential tenet of liberalism: the state-society, public-private distinction. The…
Screens and Sacraments
The coronation of King Charles III made for great television: horsemen in breastplates and plumes; a bejeweled…
Tulsi Gabbard’s Culture Wars
Tulsi Gabbard’s public career began with opposition to same-sex marriage. It’s a fact about the former Democratic…
Overheard: Two Pro-Lifers Having a Chat
Sally: Did you notice, Harry, how positive that pro-life speaker was about IVF? I was amazed. Granted,…
Radical Ick
I was recently sipping on chocolat chaud while visiting Paris, observing life leisurely unfurling in the charming Place des Vosges.…
Baffled Joy
I have long known who Mischa Elman was: one of the great violinists of the last century (1891–1967).…
Ungentle Parenting
What are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choiceby anastasia berg and rachel wisemanst martin’s, 336 pages, $27…
Romantic Agenda
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantmentby charles taylorharvard university,640 pages, $37.95 One way of telling…
Malick the Philosopher
Terrence Malick and the Examined Lifeby martin woessneruniversity of pennsylvania, 416 pages, $65 In his book God, Philosophy,…
Charity and Sarcasm
The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priestby karen hallcrisis, 240 pages,…
Briefly Noted — 11/24
Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the Worldby benjamin wardhaughprinceton university, 416 pages,…
Our Problem Is Disintegration
Liberals and conservatives disagree less about principles than we often imagine. (It’s common for intellectually inclined, theory-informed…
In the Activities Room
No one will say it, but we knowtoday’s fresh-flamed hibiscus flowerreveals in one brief, glorious showour birth,…
Parting Gifts
Thanks for playing. Here’s your consolation prize:a mountain capped with fog, the sun behind throwing light circumspectly…
