February 2017
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Chinese History Lessons
For most of the past three years, I have helped run a program for high school students…
Our Canaanite Woman
I made my first confession last month, and it was easier than I expected. Not that I…
Ye of Brittle Faith
On December 15, 2011, Christopher Hitchens died of esophageal cancer. Some remember him as a man of…
France’s Catholic Moment
Since France definitively adopted a republican form of government in 1870, ardent Catholics have rarely occupied the…
Letters
Protesting Malcolm Rivers concluded his article in the December issue (“The Protest”) with a reproach to today’s…
The Devil and Hilary Mantel
By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the…
The Fantasy of Addiction
I never meant to start an argument about addiction. I had carried my private doubts on the…
Spiritual Freedom
On the outskirts of Moscow, there is an Orthodox Christian memorial. The site, known as Butovo, once…
Gratitude for the Given
We often hear that conservatism comes from a sober recognition of limits—getting mugged by reality. We are…
Letter to a Campus Activist
You appear confident, but are unsure. You appear angry, but are afraid. You appear righteous, but are…
Absolute Reason
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Vols. I and IIedited and translated by edwin curleyprinceton, 1,544 pages, $66…
Benedict the Dissident
Last Testament: In His Own Words by benedict xvi with peter seewald bloomsbury, 288 pages, $24 A…
Briefly Noted
Bach & God by michael marissen oxford, 288 pages, $35 Michael Marissen, emeritus professor of music at…
Reformed Ressourcement
Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholicedited by michael allen and scott r. swainbaker, 416 pages,…
Experiments in Matrimony
Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriageby stephen macedoprinceton, 320 pages, $29.95 Before the…
America’s Fighting Faith
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interestby walter a. mcdougallyale,…
The Invention of Pigs
Come our one great bushfirepigs, sty-released, declined to quittheir pavements of gravel and shit.Other beasts ran headlong,…
Stones
We carry our small griefs like stones in pockets.We rub them smooth with worry, thumb their coldsolidity,…
