April 2018
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What Makes Us Equal
After the 2016 election, when white working-class voters turned out for Donald Trump, the New York Times…
Briefly Noted
Pieter Bruegelby larry silverabbeville, 464 pages, $150 Times were hard in the Low Countries during the life…
BDS Has Failed
I am a rabbi who is often asked how to improve Christian relations with Jews. I’m grateful that…
Job’s Children
In S. Y. Agnon’s 1939 novel A Guest for the Night, one of the protagonists, Daniel Bach,…
City of the Chosen
Welcome to Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138! We’re a college town, home to Harvard, MIT, and a very large…
Jordan Peterson, Unlikely Guru
With a bestselling book, 850,000 followers on YouTube, and $60,000 a month in direct contributions from fans,…
Letters
PIO’S NO-NO? My Jewish children are proud Americans born and raised in New York. When they were…
The Ignoble Lie
During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs…
Economics as Ideology
Economics can serve as an ideology. But it can be something other than an ideology. It can…
The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae
One recurring theme in Pope Francis’s teaching is that human realities trump scholarly abstractions: “La realidad es…
Permission to Kill
Our first reaction is a benumbed sadness. Seventeen dead in a Florida school, shot by a disturbed…
Battle for Europe
Byliśmy głupiby marcin królczerwone i czarne, 256 pages, zł 39.90 Pravým okem: Antologie současného polského politického myšlení…
A Church in Doubt
To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicismby ross douthatsimon and schuster, 256 pages,…
Fenton Returns
The Church of Christ: A Collection of Essays by Monsignor Joseph C. Fentonby joseph clifford fentonedited with…
Raw Stuff
The End of Eddyby édouard louistranslated by michael luceyfarrar, straus and giroux, 208 pages, $23 Liberal regimes…
He Stands Apart
The Ross Macdonald Collection: 11 Classic Lew Archer Novelsby ross macdonaldedited by tom nolanlibrary of america, 3 volumes,…
Sovereign
“Death is king, and Vivat Rex!”—Alfred, Lord Tennyson He wields the scepter mortals must obey:The magistrate and…
Vowels into Colors
A mauve, E grey, I dark, U green, O . . . range.I do not see you,…
Snowdrops
I planted snowdrops forty years agoWhen I was fourteen; early March they driftAcross the garden, poking through…
Life of the Artist
It’s said that Caravaggio was a creep,A pedophile to be precise, the kindWho lurked near schoolyards, and…
Lama Sabachthani
Laid in a humble binof barley, not feed corn,tonight a Child is bornto save us all from…
