May 2021
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Brief Friends
The sight of old men huddled around outdoor tables, drinking coffee with one another, is familiar. In…
Keeping the Faith
The more religiously committed parents are, the more they want their children to grow up believing and…
Learning by Heart
In Darwin, Australia, sometime in 1958, an old man lay dying in hospital. He asked to see—of…
Letters
T. S. Eliot The only excuse I can imagine for David P. Goldman’s taking up the shopworn…
Pixelated Souls
The great liberal thinkers who devised our constitutional order were responding to a seventeenth-century problem, most sharply…
Storming the Barricades
As the bicentennial of the United States Constitution was approaching in 1989, Michael Kammen published a book…
Karl Barth
No theologian has exercised a greater influence on me than Karl Barth. I first encountered his work…
The Greatest Christian Novel
When Dostoevsky wrote his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, the revolutionary movement that would lead…
The Politics of Memory
In January 2020, the Socialist government of Spain, led by Pedro Sánchez, proposed a bill of profound…
Why I Keep Kosher
If you yourself are not obliged to observe Kosher, or if you simply elect not to (only…
A Treatise on Two Cities
Athens and Jerusalem:God, Humans, and Natureby david novak university of toronto, 392 pages, $51 Tertullian’s question—“What has…
Briefly Noted
The Gospel in Dickens:Selections from His Worksedited by gina dalfonzo plough, 264 pages, $18 Charles Dickens, according…
Homo Amazonicus
Fulfillment:Winning and Losing in One-Click Americaby alec macgillis farrar, straus and giroux, 400 pages, $28 For religious…
Origen’s Ladder
Homilies on the Psalms:Codex Monacensis Graecus 314by origentranslated by joseph w. trigg catholic university of america, 480…
Therapeutic Revolution
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self:Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolutionby…
True Jewish Lit
The Blessing and the Curse:The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Centuryby adam kirsch w.…
On a Statue of the Blessed Virgin
This woman, cast in bronze,Lowers her eyes uponAn infant on her lap,His naked bulk enfoldedWithin her draping…
Saint Vincent of Saragossa
His attributes are few—a book, a rodwith three large hooks. But it cannot conveythe tortures, multiple, endured…
Spaceship with Saint Giovannino
We had been pointing out the smallest details,often on the periphery, Icarus falling,nearly invisible, only legs left…
