Fishy Architecture
by Hans BoersmaThe recovery of meaningful church architecture hinges upon the retrieval of a realist metaphysic. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousHadley Arkes, echoing themes he has developed for many years in his work, offers a forceful argument (“Backing into Relativism,” June/July) that the Supreme Court’s aspiration to contentless neutrality in its Speech and Religion Clause doctrine is a jurisprudential dead end—a “descent . . . . Continue Reading »
Cultural Nihilism
by R. R. RenoThe decline in life expectancy in the United States is a symptom of a failing culture. It is driven by deaths of despair: Suicide rates are up, as are drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases. Those are hard, cruel facts. There are other signs of failure, more auspicious ones. We read about young . . . . Continue Reading »
Crimes in Concrete
by Theodore DalrympleMaking Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by james stevens curl oxford, 592 pages, $60 In a recent debate in Prospect magazine on the question of whether modern architecture has ruined British towns and cities, Professor James Stevens Curl, . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelical Ruskin
by Peter J. LeithartCelebrations of Ruskin’s polymathic genius usually miss the role of Christianity in his outlook and writing. Continue Reading »
Preserving the Church of Saint Germain des Prés
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing David Sheppe on the preservation of Saint Germain des Prés Church. Continue Reading »
The Impermanence of Place
by K. E. ColombiniOur throwaway culture has come to include entire buildings. Everywhere one looks, one senses the impermanence of place. Continue Reading »
Rebuild Christchurch Basilica
by Stephen SchmalhoferThe Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, should rebuild the destroyed Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in its former style—not give it a new design. Continue Reading »
An Empty Parliament
by Peter HitchensThe architecture of the Palace of Westminster, which once seemed to dignify the business of the place, has been diminished by the Parliament inside it. Continue Reading »
What Jane Jacobs Saw
by Michael J. LewisSome influential books fade as their ideas become conventional wisdom, but Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities remains as startling as when it appeared in . . . . Continue Reading »
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