Editors

Decline Into Silence
Daniel McInerny, The Catholic Thing

We Thinkers from the Gilt-Edged Margins
Christian Thorne,  Fare Forward

Our Kids: Facing Crisis Without Imagination
Isaiah Berg, Fare Forward

St. George: Patron Saint of England, Patronised by All
Christopher Howse, The Spectator

Officials: Islamic Extremist's Misfire Foiled Attack on Paris Christians
The Chicago Tribune

Up in Smoke—Plain Packaging and Brand Identity
Leann Davis Alspaugh,  The Hedgehog Review

Hillary Clinton Leaves Flowers for Our Lady of Guadalupe, asks ‘Who Painted It?'
Catholic News Agency

Too Many Books?
Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books

Pope Francis: Europe's Christians and Jews Must Stand Together to Defeat Persecution
Cindy Wooden, The Catholic Herald

Modern Martyrs
Br. Nicholas Schneider,  Dominicana

Confirmation Bias
Michael A. Marchal, America

Fear and Loathing in American Politics
Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Relocating Enchantment
Charlie Clark, Fare Forward

Friends, This is Not Tolerance
Kathryn Jean Lopez,  National Review

‘Reading Lists, Outfits, Even Salads Are Curated-It's Absurd'
David Balzer, The Guardian

Art, Artifice, and Artifact
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Poetry Magazine

Will Pope Francis Break the Church?
Ross Douthat, The Atlantic

The Roots of a Reforming Conservatism
Yuval Levin,  Modern Age

A Revolutionary Yemen
Bilal Zenab Ahmed, Jacobin

No Marriage Is an Island
Eve Tushnet, American Conservative

Islamic State Shoots and Beheads Thirty Ethiopian Christians in Libya
Sylvia Westall, Reuters

Myths About Attending College Debunked
Christopher Nelson, Imaginative Conservative

Why Is Israel Called Israel?
Elon Gilad, Haaretz

How Do You Imagine God?
J. David Nolan, Aleteia

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard is a story “of the decline and fall of the house of Salina” (the New York Times) and “the decline of the Sicilian aristocracy” (the New York Review of Books), a “dirge for an aristocratic world in steep descent (the Wall Street Journal). True enough, if too modest. Lampedusa’s novel is an attempt to reckon with the fact that we taste eternity in mutable forms. Wild loves are pollarded by time, childhood homes are lost or destroyed, pets die. Continue Reading »

Neverending Story
Kaelene Wilson-Goldie, Artforum

EU Accuses Google of Hurting Customers, Competitors in Web Search Case
Alastair MacDonald, Reuters

“They Didn't Know Anything”
J. Bryan Lowder, Slate

Rural Surreal
Lee Ann Brown, Asheville Poetry Review

Lectures and seminars in New York and elsewhere Continue Reading »

Economists Still Think Economics Is the Best
Moises Naim, The Atlantic

Probing the Heart of French Malaise
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The New York Times

Blame the Culture Wars on Irving Kristonl, the Neoconservatives
Craig Fehrmanem, The Boston Globe

The Future of Loneliness
Olivia Laing, The Guardian