If I speak with men's and angels' tongues,But have not love, I'm only noise—Clashing cymbal, clanging gong,Unmeaning Babel, demon's tongue.Though hot the breath that fills the lungs,If, cold to truth,…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been indicted for a variety of crimes. To laymen, the allegation is that the organization has been paying hate groups to engage in... The…
First Things ↗This essay will appear in the upcoming June/July issue of First Things. The most terrifying and telling contemporary piece of American writing is about a thousand words long. It... The…
First Things ↗Amid rampant speculation about what King Charles would say and do on his state visit to the United States, and what outrages Donald Trump might cause, few commentators took... The…
First Things ↗In his book Reading Augustine: On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learning, Joseph Clair proposes that education be reset within the liberal arts tradition with four overarching…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In this episode, Micah Mattix joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about Portico, a new literary quarterly published by the Institute on Religion and Public... The…
First Things ↗When I was growing up, it wasn’t uncommon to hear women bemoan their husbands’ absence from church. I remember scanning the pews of St. Peter’s in Plattsburgh, New York,... The…
First Things ↗The Last Men:Liberalism and the Death of Masculinityby charles cornish-daleregnery, 288 pages, $32.99 Charles Cornish-Dale, who posts on X under the nom de plume Raw Egg Nationalist, is a... The…
First Things ↗The contemporary university is widely acknowledged to be in crisis. Loss of public confidence, relentless tuition increases, and intensifying debates over speech and academic freedom... The post Recovering the University’s…
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