Providential Transfiguration

by Robert P. Imbelli

Forty years after his death, Paul VI continues to offer a striking witness of suffering, patience, and generous love. Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2018

Understanding Marion Maréchal

by Nathan Pinkoski

Since the 1980s, the French left and right have formed a front républicain or cordon sanitaire to keep the Front national (FN) out of power. When Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter Marine took over the party in 2011, she understood that the only road to electoral success . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Aristotle Returns

by Tim Crane

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science  edited by william m. r. simpson, robert c. koons, and nicholas j. teh  routledge, 352 pages, $140 Raphael’s School of Athens depicts Aristotle and Plato at the center of a group of ancient Greek philosophers modeled on . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Fences and Neighbors

by Gilbert Meilaender and Peter C. Meilaender

In his famous speech (in Acts 17) to “men of Athens” at the ­Areopagus, St. Paul speaks of the providential ordering of God as including different nations, each having its particular boundaries. God “made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Steven Pinker's Muscular Secularism

by Richard Rex

Enlightenment Now:  The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by steven pinker  viking, 576 pages, $35 Steven Pinker, as his blurb reminds us, has been reckoned by Time magazine among the “hundred most influential people in the world today.” In Enlightenment Now he devotes . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Pagan Piety

by Kyle Harper

Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion  by jörg rüpke  translated by david m. b. richardson  princeton, 576 pages, $39.95 In August of 410, for the first time in eight centuries, the city of Rome was sacked. While the fall of the ancient capital to an army of renegade Goths might . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Fanon’s Warning

by John Waters

Alienation and Freedom  by frantz fanon  edited by jean khalfa and robert j. c. young  translated by steven corcoran  bloomsbury academic, 816 pages, $29.95 In the ferment of the present moment, with its surging floods of migrants and its ostensibly gratuitous but historically . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Liturgy and Laity

by Alcuin Reid

Una Voce:  The History of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce by leo darroch  gracewing, 504 pages, $35 In 1965, Evelyn Waugh wrote to the archbishop of Westminster of the growing tide of liturgical changes: “Every attendance at Mass leaves me without comfort or edification. I shall . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Did Joseph Forgive His Brothers?

by Shalom Carmy

We still claim to think well of forgiveness, but it has in fact very nearly lost its moral weight by having been translated into an act of random kindness whose chief value lies in the sense of personal release it gives us.” So writes Wilfred McClay in a recent essay, “The Strange Persistence of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2018

Vacationing with Samuel Johnson

by K. E. Colombini

Like a scholastic, Dr. Johnson divides lovers of rustic solitude into subspecies. Continue Reading »

17 Jul 2018