A Tradition of Anti-Traditionalists

by Mark Bauerlein

What this bias in academia has produced is two generations of college teachers who don’t realize their bias. Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2022

Justify the Ways of Eve

by Veronica Clarke

A review of Tom Dulack’s Paradise Lost, playing now in New York.  Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2020

Boy on the Temple Roof

by Shalom Carmy

Young Rabbi Binder has opened the floor for a “free discussion” period at the afternoon Hebrew school housed in the synagogue, where the minimal Jewish education he dispenses to postwar Jewish boys is a prerequisite for their bar mitzvah ritual. As usual, most of the kids are indifferent, even . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2019

On Max Weber and Milton

by Junior Fellows

The junior fellows discuss Milton's love sonnets and Max Weber on the spirit of capitalism.  Continue Reading »

1 Sep 2017

To Render the Deeds of Mercy

by James Conley

A version of the following talk was given at the Shelbourne Easter Seminar on March 29, 2015. Shakespeare had a Catholic imagination. He loved to write about monastic and religious characters; he had a keen sense of sacramentality in symbol; and his work seemed to reflect the themes of Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

5 Apr 2016