January 2022
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A Less Perfect Union
An editor at Viking Press once told me that there are two ways to sell books: Put…
Divine Micro-Climates
The Baron de Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1748) has been among the most influential modern…
Letters
Counter-Revolution Nobody could accuse Scott Yenor of pulling his punches in “Sexual Counter-Revolution” (November 2021). His particular…
Men Are at War with God
Solzhenitsyn famously defined the principal trait of the twentieth century in four words: “Men have forgotten God.”…
Our Neo-Feudal Future
America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous…
True Crime Junkies
Are you bored? In need of distraction? Hungry for a morsel of entertainment? Let’s review pop culture’s…
Catholicism and the Nation
In 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in…
The Case For Black Patriotism
It seems only a few years ago that I was calling myself “a man of the left.”…
The Claims of Memory
I write in defense of memory. Not Memory in her gaudy mythological form, the Titan goddess Mnemosyne,…
The Decline of Nicene Orthodoxy
In June 2021, Dr. Ed Litton was narrowly elected the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention.…
The Pope We All Need
A vignette from Victorian England offers a good starting point for thinking about the current state of…
Antifascists after Fascism
Antifascism: The Course of a Crusadeby paul gottfriednorthern illinois university, 216 pages, $34.95 When questioned by reporters…
Briefly Noted
Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart: Cultivating a Sacramental Imagination in an Age of Pornographyedited by…
Grander and Weirder
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanityby david graeber and david wengrowfarrar, straus and giroux, 730…
On Wisdom-Lord-Worship
The Bundahišn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation:A New Translationedited and translated by domenico agostini and samuel thropeoxford…
The Scapegoat
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Powerby max chafkinpenguin, 400 pages, $28 Not so…
Fray Luis De León: Dizain
Here is the place envy and lies Pent me behind a prison gate. Oh, happy is the…
Saint Lucy
She is already what she will become.In crimson cape, her neck pierced by a sword,she holds the…
Starting With a Sentence by Aidan Hart
Truth is truth wherever it is found, In light-struck windowed hands of opal glass, In pebbles left…
