December 2023
Christian Urbanism
Cities have figured prominently in the Christian imagination: City of God, City of Jerusalem, the Heavenly City.…
Fight Together, Win Together
On Saturday, October 7, a band of Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border and crossed into…
Letters
Tarkovsky I very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,”…
The Haunting of Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was haunted by the past. Ghosts prowled his house, peering through windows, moving furniture, startling…
What Monks Do
I am in a 1982 Volvo, headed north on I-5 toward Oceanside, at a pace I could easily…
Window of Opportunism
So-called “window bills,” which eliminate statutes of limitations on child sexual abuse claims for periods of two…
Facing the Crisis
On October 7, more Jews were killed than on any single day since the Holocaust, many in…
Holy Abortion
In 2016, Kaeley McEvoy was a student at New York’s Union Theological Seminary and a ministry intern…
Sweet Land of Michigan
When my wife and I moved away from the Midwest some fifteen years ago, we began an…
The New Agnosticism
“We are what we are before God and nothing more.”—St. Anthony of Padua In an interview given…
Anchors Aweigh
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitutionby hadley arkesregnery gateway, 352 pages, $32.99…
Briefly Noted
The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Himby amul thaparregnery gateway, 304 pages, $32.99…
Left Behind
The New Power Eliteby heather gautneyoxford university, 336 pages, $29.95 In the annals of quixotic American presidential…
Polar Rescue
Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for…
The Church’s Oligarch
La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot—Cardinal Richelieu’s Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of Franceby…
What Are Men For?
Manhood:The Masculine Virtues America Needsby josh hawleyregnery, 256 pages, $29.99 In July 1944, when my paternal grandfather…
Joy in the Lord
It’s Sarah’s old-bone incredulitywrecked by the coos of borne-out prophecy. It’s Jacob learning that his son’s not…
Passionate Souls
Humble quarters calm proud men,and saltless meals compel themto engage real-world potatoes and fish. Days-old bread becomes…