March 2021
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Hope and Her Daughters
The virtue of hope has two beautiful daughters, anger and courage: anger with the way things are,…
Just Think What We’ll be Missing
Note: This column was written in December 2020. I leave it to readers to judge its pertinence…
Letters
Becket All attempts to fit Thomas Becket into a mold that echoes the interests or prejudices of…
Moral Constitutionalism
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court held that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s ban on workplace…
Unsolitary Grandeur
The mountains are my church.” So said an old parishioner of mine who tended cattle in the…
Vaccines and Fetal Tissue
In 1975 Paul Ramsey published a little book titled The Ethics of Fetal Research. In it he…
D.C. Gets its Gehry
Washington, D.C.’s cultural apparatchiks have long hankered for a Frank Gehry showpiece. On the eve of the…
Foucault’s Principalities & Powers
In the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist Michel Foucault (1926–1984) as “a sort of frail,…
T. S. Eliot and the Jews
There recur in the work of T. S. Eliot two obsessions that make one cringe: his Jew-hatred…
The Biblical Case Against IVF
Vulnerable human beings in the earliest stages of life are especially at risk these days. Increasingly, on…
The Shadow of Nothingness
Pandemic, lockdowns, shuttered churches, trillions spent, BLM protests turning violent, political rancor, hyper-partisan media, uproar after the…
Briefly Noted
Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism:Finding Christ Among the Karamazovsby paul j. contino cascade, 334 pages, $45 Pepperdine professor Paul…
Dark Greene
Russian Roulette:The Life and Times of Graham Greeneby richard greene little, brown, 591 pages, £25 Readers of…
How Great Was He?
Philip and Alexander:Kings and Conquerorsby adrian goldsworthy basic, 608 pages, $35 An immensely successful father poses a…
Man of the World
God’s Cold Warrior:The Life and Faith of John Foster Dullesby john d. wilsey eerdmans, 271 pages, $21.99…
The Spymaster
A Legacy of Spiesby john le carré viking, 272 pages, $28 Last December, while most of us…
A Sinner Washes the Feet of Jesus
“If Jesus were a prophet, he would know that the woman touching him is a sinner” (Luke…
All Aboard
Life’s a slow bus to the edge of town,With unplanned stops along the way.Trust in the driver;…
Anticipation
“With clouds descending,” says the book,the day of his appearing, thus,might, just as any other, lookat first…
The Dreamer as Architect
Last night in dreams, she lived a thousand yearsAnd was the architect who made a houseThat wandered…
Together, Separate
The bells ring out. We’re gathered roundoutside the church. Unhallowed groundis where we celebrate this year.We celebrate,…
