February 2016
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
dark powers R. R. Reno’s “The Nazi Taboo” section in his “Public Square” (December) immediately piqued my…
Fie Upon Phi
A venerable rule of predication is that certain words—or, at least, certain homonymous terms—admit of univocal, equivocal,…
Culture By Subtraction
Could I get some mayonnaise with these fries?” I asked the garçon in my broken French, imagining…
Refugees in Germany
As I am writing these lines at the end of November, the county and city of Passau…
Making the Garden
It has taken me almost fifty years to understand fully that there is a necessary connection between…
The Perils of Religious Liberty
On January 24, 1774, the young James Madison, twenty-two years old and two years out of Princeton,…
Gaul Divided
The January 7, 2015 terrorist attacks provoked the largest demonstrations in France since the liberation of Paris.…
Five Grueling Days of Joy
When the woman came for our daughters, we were crowded around a small round metal table, eating…
Mosebach’s Art
What Was Before by martin mosebach translated by kári driscoll seagull, 248 pages, $27.50 A woman asks…
Civil Obedience
The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China by chen guangcheng henry…
Declaiming Homer
The Iliad translated by peter green university of california, 608 pages, $29.95 A translator of Homer is…
An Artist at Vatican II
The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer by louis bouyer translated by john pepino angelico, 272 pages, $19.95 T…
One Brother Suffers
(for my sons) One brother suffers, and another brother—and then a third—is standing by his side.This is…
Vigils
January 6, Epiphany and the first day of Mardi Gras,in the year of Our Lord 2015 The…
Wedding Toast
Here’s hoping the years will be kindand plenteous; through them you findnew charms in your lover,and should…
Los Alamos
The mountaineers of Hitler’s 16th corpsstood on Mt. Elbrus and admired the view,confident that peace was near.…
