September 2021
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Bach and Pythagoras
Anyone who begins playing Bach as an adult will notice two things: that he should have started…
Class Acts
Another summer, another moving season in Northern Virginia, a region filled with peripatetic military and federal families.…
Eucharistic Coherence
Since being appointed bishop of Springfield, Illinois in 2010, I have been asked many times about the…
Just Here
A young friend of mine recently fell victim to an unexpected and horrific illness. For some time, it…
Letters
Karl Barth I read R. R. Reno’s charitable words on Karl Barth with great interest (“Karl Barth,”…
The Godliness of Gaming
American popular culture is not particularly welcoming of anyone committed to serious moral reflection. Dip your toes…
Catholic Ideas and Catholic Realities
For the last fifty years, from the Second Vatican Council onward, it made sense to speak of…
Signs of the Times
The woke revolutionaries get the headlines. A psychologist speaking at Yale fantasizes about killing “white people.” Princeton’s…
The Most Controversial Man in France
Éric Zemmour is the most important media personality in France today. He is also the most controversial.…
The Threat of Artificial Intelligence
The technologies referred to as “artificial intelligence” or “AI” are more momentous than most people realize. Their…
When Rome Policed Art
A century ago, a little-known Belgian artist named Albert Servaes became famous when cardinals at the Holy…
Briefly Noted
The Telling:How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Lifeby mark gerson st. martin’s essentials, 352 pages,…
Infinite Hitlers
Civilizationsby laurent binettranslated by sam taylorfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 In 1980, the soldiers of the…
One-Man Revolution
The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin:Easy Essays from the Catholic Workeredited by lincoln ricefordham, 864 pages, $34.95 In…
Rancher Rebels
Chosen Country:A Rebellion in the Westby james pogue henry holt & co., 304 pages, $28 At a…
The Bible as a Great Book
Founding God’s Nation:Reading Exodusby leon r. kass yale, 752 pages, $40 Leon Kass, best known for his…
Upper-Class Christianity
Jesus and John Wayne:How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nationby kristin kobes du mezliveright,…
When the TV Turns Off
The Silenceby don delilloscribner, 128 pages, $22 To say that Don DeLillo dislikes television would be an…
Civics after Midnight
Imagination is a monarchy;They cannot rule where they cannot decree.Just think of Solzhenitzyn underground,His manuscripts in danger,…
Sticks and Stones
Some say it like a charmin the face of words heavy as stone,or a riddle of subtle…
