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Opinion

Letters

Various

The Catholic University Matthew Schmitz aptly describes “Biden’s Collegiate Catholicism” (April 2024) in two senses. First, Biden’s…

Faithful and Invisible

Fr. Robert A. Sirico

On December 18, 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the declaration Fiducia Supplicans,…

The New Midlife Crisis

Matthew Schmitz

Check all the boxes, then chuck it all aside at forty to follow your muse. Play by…

Hope for the Organization Kid

Joshua P. Hochschild

Twenty-three years ago, David Brooks published in The Atlantic a long essay based on interviews with Princeton…

Those People

Ephraim Radner

Sometimes I will exclaim, when dealing with irritating and difficult people on the phone, “What’s wrong with…

Renewing the Covenant

Liel Leibovitz

Good news, fellow Americans: It’s civil war time! The violence, praise the Lord, unfurls exclusively on the…

Essays

Diagnosing Disaster

R. R. Reno

Why Did We Destroy Europe?” It’s an arresting title, chosen by Michael Polanyi for a 1970 essay…

Pro-Life Politics After Dobbs

Various

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a great victory for the pro-life cause. Prior to the…

The Last Sanctuary

Ronald W. Dworkin

During my first year in medical practice, some of the older doctors criticized me for not wearing…

Stay in My Heart

Valerie Stivers

On a spring day seven years ago I was driving across Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn feeling…

Theology of Immigration

Brad Littlejohn

Speaking to a gymnasium full of high schoolers in 2015, Angela Merkel sought to explain why Germany…

Reviews

Damaged Goods

Sebastian Milbank

Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Dutyby ephraim radnerbaker, 280 pages, $36.99 What is the purpose of the…

The End of Prestige

James F. Keating

True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Churchby francis x. maierignatius, 284 pages, $24.95…

Criminal Omissions

Josh Abbotoy

Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposalby matthew t. martenscrossway, 416 pages, $34.99 Matthew Martens, a career attorney…

Raw Deal

Colin Redemer

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Womenby batya ungar-sargonencounter, 264 pages, $32.99 Of…

The Fanfic Temptation

Veronica Clarke

Y/N: A Novelby esther yiastra, 224 pages, $26 A few months ago, an old school friend confessed that…

Briefly Noted

Various

Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanshipby meir y. soloveichikencounter, 232 pages, $29.99 If Famous Jewish…

Poetry

Our Daughter Beside the Sea: Blue Hill, Maine

Ben Myers

The seaside rock she sits on shines a blaze   of purple shell and matte-glazed films of moss.She…

At Blackmere

Ernest Hilbert

My trachea’s a well that draws up pailsOf cloudy rainwater, my bronchiolesRivulets in a fen, my lungs…

Today the Weather

Wendy Videlock

Today the weather brings to mindthe nature of the curved line,the many ways we measure time,the drawing…

Costa Maya

Catherine Savage Brosman

At Costa Maya, in the Yucatan,we walked the yellow jetty from the ship,with throngs of other visitors,…