“Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in 1986 of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). “If I wanted to say just one thing I would hire a billboard.” In the thirty-three years since, she seems to have changed her mind. Handmaid contained few maxims, but its newly . . . . Continue Reading »
Darel E. Paul offers an elegant explication of Eric Kaufmann’s complex ethno-political projection of the future (“The Future is Mixed,” November 2019). However, I fear his use of Pierre Manent’s analysis is overbroad and muddles his attempt at pointing a way forward. For example, there’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Teshuva means return, and return in the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish legal tradition means return to God. It is the word for repentance. Some prominent modern Jewish thinkers have used the term teshuva to refer to the individual or the community’s return to itself. The list . . . . Continue Reading »
Chanukah is Judaism at its least demanding and most comfortable. Continue Reading »
Catholic Ireland, as we knew it, has fallen. Continue Reading »
True freedom, genuine liberation, comes through freely chosen obedience to God’s purposes. Continue Reading »
The Hanukkah candles glisten through the winter, signaling that we need to see beyond mere utility, to discover in others an inalienable dignity. Continue Reading »
May we all ask for the grace to accept the humility of God and his choice to make room for us—lowly as we are—in his plan of salvation. Continue Reading »
There are times when you have to oppose something just because you shouldn’t give the satisfaction of victory to its supporters. Continue Reading »
Evangelical elites are clearly out of touch with the populist evangelical base. And lambasting the populists as hypocrites or dimwits will simply perpetuate the divide. Continue Reading »
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