The Internet Novel Comes of Age
by Eve TushnetTo understand the Internet you need both: Lockwood’s diptych of cloud and clarity, and Basu’s chaos mosaic. Continue Reading »
The Politics of Belonging
by Paul EmberyThe plight of the British Labour party—which can be found today still licking its wounds from a devastating 2019 general election defeat, presenting as a shadow of its once proud self—should be a warning to any political organization tempted to believe it can neglect its core vote and . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousJohn Finnis’s “Abortion Is Unconstitutional” (April) has already sent shockwaves through the pro-life movement and the broader abortion debate. The piece sparked a vigorous debate with prominent conservative scholar Ed Whelan. In the New York Times, Michelle Goldberg denounced what she . . . . Continue Reading »
Régis Debray, Radical Conservative
by Christopher CaldwellLooking back on his time as a Cuban-trained communist revolutionary, the French writer Régis Debray recalled that Chile’s Marxist president used to display on his desk a photo of guerrilla leader Che Guevara, inscribed: “To Salvador Allende, who is headed to the same place by a different . . . . Continue Reading »
A Most Unfortunate Roman Intervention
by George WeigelThe sluggish, tepid approach to a crisis of Eucharistic coherence that Cardinal Ladaria urges on the U.S. bishops is badly misconceived. Continue Reading »
Vatican II on Catholics in Public LIfe
by George Weigel“One of the gravest errors of our time is the dichotomy between the faith which many profess and the practice of their daily lives.” Continue Reading »
Storming the Barricades
by Shalom CarmyAs the bicentennial of the United States Constitution was approaching in 1989, Michael Kammen published a book about its place in American culture—A Machine That Would Go of Itself. At the time, proud Americans passionately embraced their faith in the perfection of the country’s founding . . . . Continue Reading »
The Politics of Memory
by Stanley G. PayneIn January 2020, the Socialist government of Spain, led by Pedro Sánchez, proposed a bill of profound cultural and political significance: a “Law of Historical and Democratic Memory.” If adopted, this law will bring to completion a twenty-year effort on the part of the Spanish left to limit . . . . Continue Reading »
Karl Barth
by R. R. RenoNo theologian has exercised a greater influence on me than Karl Barth. I first encountered his work while I was a student at Haverford College. In those years, I was smitten with Carl Jung and Paul Tillich, who fed my growing interest in matters spiritual. But Barth did not traffic in the soft . . . . Continue Reading »
Therapeutic Revolution
by Hans BoersmaOne of the most remarkable features of our society is its blithe dismissal of tradition. Religious practices that have long shaped our social and political life are held in contempt. Time-tested convictions that guided generations before us are not just second-guessed but mocked and denounced. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
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