May 2017
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Stardust to Stardust
I’m at the corner of Broadway and West 73rd Street trying to decide whether the security guard…
Look at Their Democracy
In the three centuries since the prince-elector of Hanover became George I of Great Britain, few power…
A Disunited Methodist Church
Just as the Roman Catholic Church was shaped, in part, by the culture of the Empire, so…
Michael Novak by the Sea
Once upon a time there was a lion . . . and the lion had a voice…
Letters
Forgiveness I was especially pleased to find Bishop Robert Barron’s article (“Forgiving Dylann Roof”) in the March…
Return of the Strong Gods
A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: “I…
The Moral Turn
For some conservatives, bracing themselves on the night of the election, the evening offered nothing less than…
Restraining Populism
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote Donald Trump a public letter the day after his election. “Germany and…
Benedict Option
There’s something very right about Rod Dreher’s call to action in The Benedict Option: A Strategy for…
The Tragedy of the Republic
We French have for some years been overcome by a furor for republicanism and for citizenship. There…
MacIntyre Against Morality
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrativeby alasdair macintyrecambridge, 332…
Self-Evident, Not Obvious
C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Lawby justin buckley dyer and micah j. watsoncambridge, 170…
Empson in the East
The Face of the Buddhaby william empsonedited by rupert arrowsmithoxford, 208 pages, $49.95 William Empson (1906–1984) was…
Disincarnate Christ
Silenceby shūsaku endōforeword by martin scorsesepicador, 256 pages, $16 Silence a film directed by martin scorsese paramount,…
Metamorphoses
A turkey, turnkey, turncoat, dovecote, dovewaddles and wavers and wings her way above,metempsychoses, metamorphosescrossing horizons, orisons, seasons,…
My Father’s Father’s Body
My grandpa built a go-cart out of junk:An old lawnmower engine, scraps of metal, A cupboard door,…
Out
The Lord God, the Almighty, simply said,“Do not eat any fruit from this tree. ItMay taste delicious,…
