November 2024
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Screens and Sacraments
The coronation of King Charles III made for great television: horsemen in breastplates and plumes; a bejeweled…
Tulsi Gabbard’s Culture Wars
Tulsi Gabbard’s public career began with opposition to same-sex marriage. It’s a fact about the former Democratic…
Overheard: Two Pro-Lifers Having a Chat
Sally: Did you notice, Harry, how positive that pro-life speaker was about IVF? I was amazed. Granted,…
Radical Ick
I was recently sipping on chocolat chaud while visiting Paris, observing life leisurely unfurling in the charming Place des Vosges.…
Baffled Joy
I have long known who Mischa Elman was: one of the great violinists of the last century (1891–1967).…
The End of the Age of Hitler
A century ago, the most potent moral figure in the West was Jesus Christ. Believers and unbelievers…
Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution
In the fall of 1970, a year after Yale welcomed its first female freshmen and six months…
Actually Existing Postliberalism
Twentieth-century civilization has collapsed. It rested on an essential tenet of liberalism: the state-society, public-private distinction. The…
Our Problem Is Disintegration
Liberals and conservatives disagree less about principles than we often imagine. (It’s common for intellectually inclined, theory-informed…
Ungentle Parenting
What are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wisemanst martin’s, 336 pages,…
Romantic Agenda
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylorharvard university,640 pages, $37.95 One way of…
Malick the Philosopher
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life by Martin Woessneruniversity of pennsylvania, 416 pages, $65 In his book God,…
Charity and Sarcasm
The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest by Karen Hallcrisis, 240…
Briefly Noted
Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaughprinceton university,416 pages,…
In the Activities Room
No one will say it, but we knowtoday’s fresh-flamed hibiscus flowerreveals in one brief, glorious showour birth,…
Parting Gifts
Thanks for playing. Here’s your consolation prize:a mountain capped with fog, the sun behind throwing light circumspectly…
