June/July 2019
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
DE GAULLE In “A Certain Idea of France” (April), Peter Hitchens goes too far when he concludes…
An Acceptable Prejudice
Contemporary universities are doing their best to eradicate prejudice and bias. Yet one remaining prejudice—against white men—is…
The Fusionism That Failed
Understanding the upheavals of American conservatism requires the study of its history—in particular, the fortunes of Frank…
A Nation of Americans
America is a nation of immigrants. America has always been a nation of immigrants. Or so we…
Beyond Subsistence and Superfluity
The utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham defines the good as the greatest happiness of the greatest number. More…
Cultural Nihilism
The decline in life expectancy in the United States is a symptom of a failing culture. It…
Back Row America
I first walked into the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx because I had been told not…
In the Academic Sandbox
During the late summer and early fall of 2017, Rachel Fulton Brown, a fifty-two-year-old associate professor of…
Backing into Relativism
We have just come through a year with the Supreme Court in which the defenders of religious…
Grace, Continued
Then, for three years, I traveled wherever Grace traveled. Wherever she went, I went, and after she…
Crimes in Concrete
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarismby james stevens curloxford, 592 pages, $60 In…
Carry On, Plum
Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouseby ben schottlittle, brown, 320 pages, $27…
Broken Family, Broken Country
My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search For Homeby michael brendan doughertysentinel, 223 pages, $24…
Stefan Zweig, European Man
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweigby stefan zweigtranslated by anthea bellpushkin, 384 pages, $30 The Collected Stories…
Stream
after reading Richard Wilbur’s “Hamlen Brook” Gliding upon cascades of sound, the crumpled leaves…
Fashioning a Walking Stick
I cut a hawthorn, stripped the outer barkwhich left five shades of red to contemplate.The first, as…
Drugged
It is warmth which floods you,the plane tree, peeling, new, the bud, the tingled lips,bark smooth to…
