March 2020
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Letters
Marriage & Mission Patricia Snow (“Hawthorne’s Daughter,” January) may perhaps be unaware of St. Jerome’s error in…
Taking Power in the Academy
In September 2017, I published a peer-reviewed paper titled “The Case for Colonialism” in Third World Quarterly.…
Venice Afloat
An observer of a Spenglerian bent might just write Venice off, taking the floods that afflict the…
Secular Monks
Jack Dorsey, cofounder and CEO of Twitter and founder and CEO of Square, wakes up at 5…
Limits of Religious Freedom
In the face of determined assaults on religion, conservative activists and intellectuals have offered increasingly strident defenses…
Prayer, Distraction, and Daily Life
Let’s begin by reviewing some fundamentals of Jewish prayer. The mandatory prayers are offered three times daily.…
The Antidiscrimination Regime
I read The Age of Entitlement in one sitting, unable to put down Christopher Caldwell’s riveting account of…
Why I Am Not a Liberal
I never called myself a liberal. For a long time, however, I considered liberalism a sound theory…
An Ordinary Life
The Old French word ordinarie, meaning “ordinary, usual,” derives from the medieval Latin ordinarius (“customary, regular, usual,…
Late-Night Musings on Nationalism
Pondering the endless glut of books on the virtues of nationalism and the failures of political liberalism,…
Early-Morning Musings on the Sacred
Recently, I met a Wall Street trader. He was in his late thirties, perhaps his early forties.…
Marriage of Genius
The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circleby elizabeth hardwick and robert lowell edited…
Back to the Future
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successby ross douthat avid, 272 pages,…
Prurient History
The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogioby hubert wolf vintage, 496 pages, $17 Sex sells, all the more if one…
Replace the Elite
The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Eliteby michael lind portfolio, 224 pages, $25 Michael…
Clashing Rights
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by christopher caldwell simon & schuster, 352 pages, $28…
Briefly Noted
The River of the Immaculate Conceptionby james matthew wilson wiseblood, 28 pages, $10 In The River of…
Rebekah’s Ultrasound
Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb right from the start. Rebekah’s ultrasound, quite early on, revealed…
The Doctor and the Patient in the Next Exam Bay
“Sing it again,” I want to ask them bothas I sit here alone behind mesh drapeson paper…
Darshan-abhilashi
How often when we are lostor in pain, we cry out to God— even if we don’t…
Mirror Work
The peak that paints the lakeIs quick to break. A height becomes a depth,A life a death.…
