Dan Hitchens

Murray’s poems pack an impossible amount of meaning into short lines. Continue Reading »

Everyone agrees that there are some things money can’t buy. We should be just as sure that there are some questions calculators can’t answer. Continue Reading »

The doctrine of hell is coming under particular pressure at the moment. Continue Reading »

We ought to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of communism’s defeat, but it is difficult to say what actually did the defeating.  Continue Reading »

At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »

Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by james bloodworth atlantic, 288 pages, $19.95 What single image best sums up Amazon, which this year became, after Apple, the world’s second-ever trillion-dollar company? Is it the grinning face of Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and very . . . . Continue Reading »

 Like a number of poets, Terrence Malick fumbles to express a common experience: the inexplicable longing that elevates the soul and fills it with an agonizing hope. Continue Reading »

Conversion stories remind us that God understands us better than we understand ourselves.  Continue Reading »

Stephen Walford's Pope Francis, the Family and Divorce: In Defense of Truth and Mercy experiments with the idea that it is excessive to ask divorced-and-remarried couples to choose between receiving the Eucharist and having sex. Continue Reading »

If we can’t find a word to describe our situation, we have scarcely begun to understand it. Continue Reading »