Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry
Lorraine Daston, The Point
Israel at War with Hamas and Itself
Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Despite Dementia, a Life of Art Continues to Thrive
Mark Sheerin, Hyperallergic
The Physicality of Prayer
Rowan Williams, New Statesman
Colleges Want Students with Character, But Can’t Measure It
Eric Hoover, Nautilus
Very rarely do we plan to think. So I’m advocating for the insertion of calendar entries lest our days get filled with tasks that crowd out the serious business of being human. Continue Reading »
Alice in Borderland
Charles Foran, The Walrus
The News is Born
Julianne Werlin, Los Angeles Review of Books
Remembering My Friend Chris Mitchell
Wesley Hill, Books & Culture
Divine Reverie: Revelation, Dream Interpretation, and Teeth in Antiquity
Sarah Bond and Matthew Neujahr, The Appendix
Fantasy and the Buffered Self
Alan Jacobs, The New Atlantis
The West sees Boko Haram as anti-women. But that’s a relatively minor part of the story. Boko Haram is not principally anti-women, but anti-Christian.
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According to the Planned Parenthood, just 3 percent of its services are abortion related. So why are so many clinics closing? Continue Reading »
Today marks the feast day of St. Bonaventure, the seraphic doctor. Unlike Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure represents the synthesis of medieval Augustinian mysticism. For this reason, he can be particularly challenging to interpret. Reading him is worth the labor. In Bonaventure one glimpses the . . . . Continue Reading »
The State of the American Dog
Tom Junod, Esquire
And Now: The Criminalization of Parenthood
Radley Balko, Washington Post
The Culture Warrior in Winter
Tiffany Stanley, National Journal
Books Are Alive
Ned Resnikoff, The Baffler
Cool Istanbul
Kate Havard, Weekly Standard
Christopher W. Mitchell was a scholar of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien who directed The Wade Center at Wheaton College for many years. Wesley Hill remembers him as a good friend. Continue Reading »
God Lives on Lemon Street
Scott Cheshire, Harper’s
Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy
Joshua Rothman, New Yorker
In Defense of Fanny Price
Tara Isabella Burton, Paris Review
Carrie White Will Never Die
Eve Tushnet, American Conservative
The Tea Party’s New Front in the American Culture Wars: Literature
Adam Kirsch, Tablet
On the 210th anniversary of the most famous duel in American history, some reflections on America’s public religion. Continue Reading »
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