Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 27

by R. R. Reno

Our fear exposes the weaknesses and false promises of our worldly preoccupations. Continue Reading »

28 Mar 2020 0

Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 26

by R. R. Reno

By emphasizing the technological promise and the rhetoric of preventable death, we are ensuring that this crisis will go on and on, reverberating in society for a long while to come. Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2020 0

Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 25

by R. R. Reno

Death’s undertow is strong. It inspires powerful emotions, amplified by the media and echoing in our souls. Continue Reading »

26 Mar 2020 0

Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 24

by R. R. Reno

The New York shutdown has not suspended all the corporal works of mercy.  Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2020 0

A Gleeful Slaughter of the Innocents

by Kari Jenson Gold

The “woke” Episcopal Church of 2019 stands firmly with Team Herod. Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2019 0

Shadow Show

by Peter Wood

Artemisia: Light and Shadow, a one-act, one-person play at the Flea Theater in Tribeca, portrays the life of the seventeenth-century Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Continue Reading »

25 May 2018 0

The Sins of Chick-fil-A

by Charlotte Allen

Chick-fil-A has opened a new outlet in Manhattan, and the liberals are outraged.  Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2018 0

Mary McCarthy’s Clarity

by Richard T. Whittington

Mary McCarthy's caustic wit and command of language elevated her nonfiction to the first rank.   Continue Reading »

30 Jan 2018 0

De Blasio’s Anti-Police Populism

by R. R. Reno

New York City Police Officer Wenjian Liu was buried on Sunday. He was killed before Christmas, along with Officer Rafael Ramos, by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a mentally-ill black man who wanted to exact retribution for the death of Eric Garner, also black, who suffocated as the result of a police chokehold during his arrest. At the funeral for both, a number of police officers turned their back when Mayor Bill De Blasio spoke. Continue Reading »

7 Jan 2015 0

What Clericalism Looks Like

by Nicholas Frankovich

For the past three months, parishioners and friends of the Church of Our Saviour on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan have been wondering what happened to the fourteen icons that were removed from two pilasters in the sanctuary on the evening of August 22. They have also been wondering why the artwork was removed in the first place. It was integral to the church’s wall-to-wall iconography, which had been commissioned by the previous pastor and funded in part by the Vatican. Other icons in the sanctuary remain. Those that are now missing were integral to the “sacred geometry of the whole sanctuary,” as their artist, Ken Woo, describes them. Their sudden disappearance has been as conspicuous as their presence was. Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2014 0