June/July 2020
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Letters
Fascism In “Professors as Propagandists” (April), Alexander Riley systematically misrepresents my 2018 book, How Fascism Works. If…
Spiritual Communion
During the Diocletian persecution, a group of North African Christians were brought to trial in Carthage for…
My Recipe Binder
For those of us who were adults before the advent of the Internet, a three-ring binder was…
Protestants in Rome
Protestants are drawn to Rome, though we define ourselves against it. Strictly speaking, we do not go…
The Fallen Men of Film Noir
In the mid-1940s, Hollywood began to make a new kind of crime film. Combining sex and violence,…
The Old Man in the Nursery School
Nathan Alterman (1910–1970) was the most important Hebrew poet of his generation. He was popular with readers…
Under the Rainbow Banner
In June 1970, America’s first gay pride parades hit the streets. Four U.S. cities—New York, Los Angeles,…
Imprudent Expertise
Human beings have always yearned to know the future, and there have always been other human beings…
Russian Purgatory
The Russian soul. The phrase serves as shorthand for Russia’s national character, after the manner of American…
The Final Enemy
Human mortality has always fascinated the greatest creative minds—from Homer declaiming on the slayings of Patroclus and…
Christian Nation, Yes and No
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States by andrew l. whitehead and samuel…
Young Pius
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europeby david…
Catastrophism and Control
Épidémies: vrais dangers et fausses alertesby didier raoult michel lafon, 160 pages, €8.99 The Rules of Contagion:…
Strategic Long-Term Propaganda
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold Warby duncan white custom house, 800 pages, $32.50 In…
Gelded Critics of Capitalism
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernityby eugene mccarraher belknap, 816 pages, $39.95…
Briefly Noted
Tyll: A Novel by daniel kehlmann, translated by ross benjamin pantheon, 352 pages, $26.95 Daniel Kehlmann’s novel…
The Cat Jeoffry, on Smart
For I will consider my Man Christopher.For he is shut in a box, and betimes scratchesAt the…
Sunflowers
Without warning, they appear, eachcluster separate from the next, goldbeads strung on strands of grass,glowing on the…
The Nun from Nigeria Sits Next to Me at the College Jazz Concert
Face blank as absolution, from this back rowshe stares straight ahead …
The Prodigal Son’s Next Life
He forgave firstnot forgivinghimself before as he then forgavethe dust trailing his stepsfaithful as his shadow, as…
Waning Moon
A translation of Mario Dell’Arco’s“Luna calante” Pendant around the neck of night:ringed by Taurus, Capricorn,Ursa Major on…
Comb of Leaves
Enough, I am to crumble to the floor;But all around me are perceptive eyes.I feel like going…
Seeds
Tiny packets of life, these seeds. They seeminvisible in our busy days, and, tossedby shoes, or cracked…
