Xerxes and the Jewish Diaspora
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, Preachers’ Institute

Tongue Tied
Br. Tomás Martín Rosado O.P., Dominicana

Atheist Church: An Exercise in Mimicry
Anthony Sacramone, Strange Herring

Past Perfect
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Democracy

Evelyn Waugh, Catholic Optimist
Micah Mattix, National Review

Martyrdom Against Moss and Rushdie
Michael Jensen, ABC Religion & Ethics

Counter and Strange: Contemporary Catholic Literature
Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions

The Perils of Wonkery
Peter Frase

The Carroll-Dulaney Religion Debates
Samuel Hearne, Acton Institute

Schizophrenia in America
Quang Tran, Jesuit Post

The Case for Regime Change on Abortion
James Taranto, Wall Street Journal

Karl Barth Sinks with the Titanic
Fred Sanders, The Scriptorium

How Your Child Will Be Kidnapped
Matt Emerson, Ignatian Educator

Taxis, Cossacks, and Churches
Rick Schneider, Rivendell Institute

Did the Left Win the Twentieth Century?
Various, New Statesman

Converting the (Other) Hagia Sophia
Melissa Steffan, Christianity Today

Reality and Public Policy
George Weigel, National Affairs

Where Flannery Became Flannery
Ann Napolitano, Writers’ Houses

Fifteen Days in Rome
Stacy Meichtry and Alessandra Galloni, Wall Street Journal

The Bible vs. the Heart
Dennis Prager, National Review

Endorsement and Academic Freedom
John Garvey, Touchstone

The Rise of Evangélicos
Elizabeth Dias, Time

Twenty Poems to Save America
Tony Hoagland, Harper’s

The Economic Logic of the New Domesticity
Ann Friedman, New Republic

Hit Jobs and Tolerance
Kieran Raval, Juicy Ecumenism

It’s OK to Love Your Hometown
Justin Green, Daily Beast

What Abraham Kuyper Did
Eric Miller, Christianity Today

Johann Jungnitz and the Necessity of Logic for Theology
Eric Parker, Epistole

The Orthodox Vision of Human Sexuality
Fr. Thomas Hopko, Ancient Faith Radio

Abortion After Tiller
Justin Dyer, Public Discourse

Threats to Reason in Moral Judgment
John F. Kihlstrom, Hedgehog Review

On Ransom in Biblical Theology
Fr. John A. Peck, Preachers’ Institute

Licentious About Sex, Puritanical About Food
Alissa Wilkinson, Books & Culture

How Not to Defend the Liberal Arts
Samuel Goldman, American Conservative

Religious Orders on the Rise?
Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa

The Leakiness of Surveillance Culture
Tim Maly, Quiet Babylon

Too Much Sociology
Editors, n+1

Léon Bloy and Pope Francis
Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

RIP, Franziska Jägerstätter
Tom Roberts, National Catholic Reporter

Thinking Trivially About Radical Orthodoxy
Benjamin Robertson, Second Nature

On Dualisms
Eva Brann, Imaginative Conservative

St. Francis, Christian Love, and Biotechnology
William B. Hurlbut, New Atlantis

How I Believe in Roger Ebert
Steven D. Greydanus, National Catholic Register

Professor Judt Changes Trains
Jeffrey Wheatcroft, Times Literary Supplement

Dominic Gondreau’s Special Vocation
Paul Gondreau, Huffington Post

There Will Likely Be No Methodist Schism
Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism

Who Was Athanasius Kircher?
Paula Findlen, The Nation

Being Gay at Falwell’s University
Brandon Ambrosino, Atlantic

Karl Barth and Three Forms of Atheism
W. Travis McMaken, Die Evangelischen Theologen

The Bitter Fool
David Yezzi, New Criterion

The First Pope Francis Book
Mark Judge, RealClearBooks

Lordship, Millennialism, and Heresy
Stelios Vasilis Perdios, Medievalists

Urban Planning and the Church ‘Halo Effect’
Lorna Dueck, Globe & Mail

Orthodoxy & Oprah-doxy
Napp Nazworth, Christian Post

Mom’s Faith Wins Out
Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Times

Curia Reform? Bank on It
John L. Allen, Jr., National Catholic Reporter

Interlocutions: Defining First Principles
Steven Wedgeworth & Peter Escalante, Calvinist International

The Few Witnesses to the Resurrection
Bl. John Henry Newman, Catholic Thing

This Is Baseball’s Golden Age
Michael Brendan Dougherty, Daily Beast

Egotistic Adoration
Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P., Dominicana

Waiting for the Bells
Elliot Milco, Fare Forward

Classic Correction
Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Corner

Swimming With Leviathan
Kenneth Minogue, New Criterion

The Secret World of Garbagemen
Heather Horn, Atlantic

After Atheism
Various, New Statesman

Timothy Murphy’s Conversion
Greg Kandra, Deacon’s Bench

The Law According to Harvey Mansfield
Richard Reinsch, Library of Law and Liberty

Struggling Lutheran Seminaries
Libby A. Nelson, Inside Higher Ed

Easter’s Freedom
Joseph Loconte, Wall Street Journal

Muslims at Holy Thursday Mass
H. Sergio Mora, Zenit

Mere Anarchy
James C. Scott, Wilson Quarterly

The Old Man and His Big Book
David Mathis, Desiring God

Chesterton Did Not Use “Paradox”
Zac Alstin, Spiked Review of Books

Spring Breakers: A Reactionary Film
Sonny Bunch, Washington Free Beacon

Frances and Bernard
Carlene Bauer, New York Times

Beauty, Action, and Love
Dominique Ovalle & Jen Grabarczyk, Other Journal

The New American Haggadah
Erika Meitner, Los Angeles Review of Books

Missionaries of the Davos Culture
Gordon N. Bardos, National Interest

The Theology of Self-Destruction
B.C., Erasmus

Scam Cell
Lloyd Billingsley, City Journal

Is, Ought, Can
Brandon, Siris

The Left Bank in the Vieux Carré
Charles Jeanfreau, University Bookman

Living Well in Ordinary Time
Stanley Hauerwas, ABC Religion & Ethics

A Tale of Two Popes
Carl Trueman, Reformation21

Pilate Said to Him
Raphael Forbing, O.P., Dominicana

A Bunch of Nobodies
Mark Greif, n+1

Why I Changed My Mind on Baptism
Sean Michael Lucas, Gospel Coalition

To Grow the Economy, Grow People
James Poulos, Forbes

Abelard’s Legacy: Theology Is Not ‘Faith Seeking Understanding’
Ralph Norman, Medievalists

An Ethical God
Roger Olson, ABP

Writing for Jacques Barzun
Helen Hazen, American Scholar

Rhonheimer’s Perils of Neutrality
Bruce P. Frohnen, University Bookman

The Pope and the Option for the Poor
Giuseppe Sabella & Robert Sirico, Il Sussidiario

The Christian Fantasy
Lars Walker, Intercollegiate Review

The Rise of McMecca
Zvika Krieger, Atlantic

Two Kinds of “Conservative” Christians
Thomas Holgrave, Juicy Ecumenism

Mutilations of American History
David Greenberg, New Republic

Some Thoughts on Conclave Leaks
Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law

Mystery of the Murdered Saints
Mystagogy

Here Come the Radicals!
Matthew Lee Anderson, Christianity Today

Pope Francis’ Mass Appeal
Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs

Art and Friendship
Elliot Milco, Fare Forward

Hart Has Reasons that Reason Cannot Know
Thaddeus J. Kozinski, Ethika Politika

Hawthorne and the American Unconscious
Micah Mattix, Weekly Standard

Why Was Cranmer Burnt?
Rev. Peter Robinson, The Continuum

The Democratic Party and the Postwar American Novel
Len Gutkin, Democracy

A Response to R. J. Snell on Natural Law
Thaddeus J. Kozinski, Anamnesis

Pope Francis’ Economics
Joe Carter, Acton Institute

The Ignatius-Francis Connection
Tim Muldoon, Patheos

St. Patrick’s Day: A great excuse to . . . brush up on early-church Trinitarian heresies. Footnotes to the fifth-century Irish peasants’ lecture here.

via Lutheran Satire

This Is You on the Wrong Side of History
Anthony Sacramone, Intercollegiate Review

New Shepherd, Same Wandering Flock
Mary Eberstadt, Time

The Case for Guarded Traditionalist Optimism
Kevin, Common Sense Catholicism

Hamlet the Hero?
Mitchell Kalpakgian, Crisis

Bulgarians Commemorate Rescue of Jews
Israel Hayom

Quiet Thunder in Argentina
Jose Maria Poirier, Catholic Herald

Three Keys to Pope Francis
Edward Mulholland, Zenit

What the Pope Really Is for Catholics
Lorenzo Albacete, Il Sussidiario

A Friend to Argentine Anglicans
George Conger, Anglican Ink

In Papal Elections, Are Longshots the Rule?
David Leonhardt, FiveThirtyEight