December 2019
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
The New Right Sohrab Ahmari correctly identifies many of the pathologies haunting liberal order in the West…
They Have the Jobs
How will you improve diversity at our school?” That’s a question often asked in faculty job interviews…
Mid-Century Manhood
No man celebrating his eighty-sixth birthday can avoid thinking about whether he has measured up to the…
America’s Fat Knight
Harold Bloom, who died in October at age eighty-nine, was The Last Great American Literary Critic. The…
God’s Garbage People
As the sun comes up, the men go out from Garbage City and into the streets of…
Recalled to Life
Crippled by a stroke, my aunt Miriam spent the last seventeen years of her life in a…
Failed Leaders
Suicides among Americans aged ten to twenty-four increased by more than 50 percent between 2007 and 2017.…
Ibsen’s Soulcraft
The Norwegian master Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) is and will remain the most important modern playwright—which is not…
Opiate of the Theologians
Not until the nineteenth century did any Christian body make universal salvation its official teaching. The first…
Notes on Summer Camp
More than twenty-five years ago, I spent two summers as a camp counselor in North Carolina. This…
Rooted Cosmopolitan
In 2011, I reviewed what was then Adam Zagajewski’s recent collection, Unseen Hand. In it, the poet, then…
Loyal to Death
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Historyby richard j. evansoxford, 800 pages, $39.95 Walter Scott once observed that…
Turning Inward
The Meaning of Protestant Theologyby phillip carybaker, 384 pages, $32.99 The most immediate and pressing ecumenical question…
Witch Ways
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by ronald hutton yale, 376…
France Fractured
L’archipel français: naissance d’une nation multiple et diviséeby jérôme fourquet le seuil, 384 pages, 22€ Living between…
Briefly Noted
God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsideredby brian e. daley, s.j. oxford, 312 pages, $88 The great liberal Protestant…
Joseph
He scrubbed the trough and filled it with fresh hay.The midnight sky was bright and hard and…
Torso
The Christmas angel in the window,a headless, legless mutilation,stands propped by a steel rod. She’s encased in…
Ordinary Time
The tang of juniper, the dew-wet grassThat grabs your ankles, apples for the taking.The haze between the…
First Sunday
In Advent, the hermit lights a candle-end,Drips wax onto a saucer, stands it there.The early nightfall forms…
The Edifice
I chose a bench where I could read AugustineAs one may do beside construction sites.Late February, sunny,…
An Icon of St. Margaret
This gold and paint on board, the fillet in her hair—I see resemblance, yes, a slantways glimpse…
Elizabeth to Her Cousin
After Jacob of Serug Blessed are you, O Maiden; blest The fruit which dwells within your…
