February 2024
Letters
Our Strategy Liel Leibovitz’s article “Fight Together, Win Together” (December 2023) is a stirring encapsulation of the…
The Mystery of Israel
The “mystery of Israel”—that’s what Jacques Maritain called Israel’s endurance as the people of the Old Covenant,…
Captain Bob
On the day my family moved into our home in Northern Virginia, we found a bottle of…
How Nebraska Became the Volleyball State
On August 3, more than 92,000 people filled Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, to view a women’s…
Standing in the Cold
Winter is a bad time. Whether for a season or for a life, it dampens the self.…
Art Needs Faith
Tis the season of “The Artist”: On screen, in print, and on stage, the man of the…
Idealistic Nihilism
We live in paradoxical times. Over the last two generations, college students, especially at top-ranking universities, have…
Joan of Arc, Gender Theorist
When the nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc was told she would be burned at the stake, she reacted…
Consolations of Middle Age
This past June I attended my daughter’s high school graduation. Observing the wrinkles, gray hair, and softening…
Our Christian Nation
Christopher Dawson was an English historian in the middle of the last century, one of those intellectuals…
A Rabbi for Christians
Judaism is not even a religion.” This striking line appears in Immanuel Kant’s Religion Within the Boundaries…
War on the Culture War
Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical Americaby russell d. moorepenguin, 272 pages, $29 Southerners have…
Ambitious Nihilism
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the Worldby malcolm harrislittle, brown and company, 720 pages,…
Reactionary Hope
The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalizationby eviane leidigcolumbia university, 288 pages, $110…
Above the Thunderstorm
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Lifeby zena hitzcambridge university, 150 pages, $12.99 At first glance, it seems…
Israel at War
Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Moralityby shlomo m. brodymaggid books, 412 pages,…
The Remnant
The day I lost my sight,I could no more see you, my love,Still God is in the…
Polutropos
Sing, O Muse, of the man of many reverses,the man with a mind of many winding ways,turned…