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Rhys Laverty (“Lady Scrooges,” December 2024) was perceptive in pointing out that women helped build today’s unforgiving cancel culture. On the other hand, the feminism responsible is not a misplaced maternal vice arising from what C. S. Lewis characterized as “intense family patriotism . . . . Continue Reading »

In January 2023, a group of Jewish and Christian scholars met to form a circle of study and conversation. We shared an important conviction. As divergent as our faith traditions may be, together we face what amounts to a totalizing supersessionism: the conceit that modern science and . . . . Continue Reading »

Nick Ripatrazone’s small new book, The Habit of Poetry, makes a large contribution to Catholic cultural history. He documents the lives and works of literary nuns with special chapters on four women from the mid-twentieth century. Each of these sisters published in national journals and . . . . Continue Reading »

The most memorable books our editors and writers read this year. Continue Reading »

The most memorable films and TV shows our editors and writers watched this year. Continue Reading »

I appreciated Fr. Lusvardi’s excellent and most thoughtful article “Screens and Sacraments” (November 2024), seeing how online Masses appear to be treating the holy things of Christ in an uncomfortably irreverent way. But I wonder if his apparent comfort with broadcasting the Liturgy of the . . . . Continue Reading »

I appreciated Matthew Burdette’s insights into “Progressive Supersessionism” (October 2024), drawing out continuities between today’s anti-theological progressive claim to supersede traditional religion and culture and that movement’s forebear, a theological liberal Protestant claim that . . . . Continue Reading »

Onsi Kamel’s article (“Arabic, A Christian Language,” August/September) reminded me of an experience I had while I was a high school student at the American School of Kuwait. The Kuwait Ministry of Education required all non-Arabic-speaking students in the school to take Arabic as a foreign . . . . Continue Reading »

What makes a Great Book? When one considers the many Great Books curricula in the United States, one notices an abundance of poets and a smattering of philosophers. Sadly missing from the list at most classically inflected schools are the works of such great mathematical minds as Euclid, Archimedes, . . . . Continue Reading »

Thank you for hosting the post-Dobbs symposium (“Pro-Life Politics After Dobbs,” June/July) of observations and suggestions by individuals who have done so much already for the pro-life cause. As I understand their reflections, they mainly lament the lack of effective political . . . . Continue Reading »