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Opinion

Christian Urbanism

Ephraim Radner

Cities have figured prominently in the Christian imagination: City of God, City of Jerusalem, the Heavenly City.…

Fight Together, Win Together

Liel Leibovitz

On Saturday, October 7, a band of Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border and crossed into…

Letters

Various

Tarkovsky I very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,”…

The Haunting of Russell Kirk

Matthew Schmitz

Russell Kirk was haunted by the past. Ghosts prowled his house, peering through windows, moving furniture, startling…

What Monks Do

Alexander Riley

I am in a 1982 Volvo, headed north on I-5 toward Oceanside, at a pace I could easily…

Window of Opportunism

L. Martin Nussbaum

So-called “window bills,” which eliminate statutes of limitations on child sexual abuse claims for periods of two…

Essays

Facing the Crisis

R. R. Reno

On October 7, more Jews were killed than on any single day since the Holocaust, many in…

Holy Abortion

Samira Kawash

In 2016, Kaeley McEvoy was a student at New York’s Union Theological Seminary and a ministry intern…

Sweet Land of Michigan

James Matthew Wilson

When my wife and I moved away from the Midwest some fifteen years ago, we began an…

The New Agnosticism

Tom Hiney

“We are what we are before God and nothing more.”—St. Anthony of Padua In an interview given…

Reviews

Anchors Aweigh

Marc O. DeGirolami

Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitutionby hadley arkesregnery gateway, 352 pages, $32.99…

Briefly Noted

Various

The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Himby amul thaparregnery gateway, 304 pages, $32.99…

Left Behind

Darel E. Paul

The New Power Eliteby heather gautneyoxford university, 336 pages, $29.95 In the annals of quixotic American presidential…

Polar Rescue

Michael Toscano

Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for…

The Church’s Oligarch

Martin Gramling

La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot—Cardinal Richelieu’s Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of Franceby…

What Are Men For?

Niall Gooch

Manhood:The Masculine Virtues America Needsby josh hawleyregnery, 256 pages, $29.99 In July 1944, when my paternal grandfather…

Poetry

Joy in the Lord

Steven Knepper

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

Aaron Belz

Humble quarters calm proud men,and saltless meals compel themto engage real-world potatoes and fish. Days-old bread becomes…