Populism and Religion
Europe does not share the American ‘faith and flag’ correlation between religion and politics.
Europe does not share the American ‘faith and flag’ correlation between religion and politics.
“It is Holy Night and there will be no shooting.” The soldiers agreed.
Cultural conservatism—especially the traditional view on familial piety—is a condition of the Gospel’s intelligibility.
It is frustrating, maddening even, for anyone who loves Vivaldi’s music that basic data on his development as a composer and musician is lacking to this day.
Iceland’s Christmas folklore includes the Ogress Grýla, the thirteen Yule Lads, and a giant cat.
The Norwegian tale of a young man who fell asleep on Christmas Eve and woke on Epiphany to recount the miraculous sights he had seen.
This oratorio, a familiar part of both the Christmas and Easter seasons, has a fascinating history.
Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity.
Fairy parties and flying reindeer are not things out of which eventually we must grow; they belong to the realm inhabited only by those who are mature enough to understand the world for what it is.
Faust’s salvation, as with humanity’s, comes only in time.
The greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century drew on the deep riches of the liturgy to speak to the secular age.
Reports of a Christian satyr coming to St. Anthony for guidance tell us something about Halloween—about the ‘fairy-folk’ and those fiends whose form may yet be redeemed.
While we need not succumb to Adorno’s demoralizing miserabilism, we might agree with him that modern life is profoundly damaged in ways both subtle and overt.
University campuses are merely magnifying glasses of ongoing, wider societal dilemmas.
Malory, like Galahad, understands an important truth: that the ultimate end of the political common good is the spiritual common good.
If anyone wishes to conquer the giants of their own vices, they must, like Don Quixote, take up the lance, the shield, draw down the visor, and mount Rocinante.
Media-friendly illegal immigrants [are] quick to make a practice of blaming France and the French should anything unfortunate befall them. …. One thinks of burglars who sue a landlord because they break a leg in his poorly lit stairwell.
FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: In crossing the threshold into Middle-earth, I stepped into a moral cosmos unlike the relativist world in which I resided.
The complex and controversial legacy of Miklós Horthy defies translation.
VOX’s Jorge Buxade argued that the state cannot exercise a power not expressly recognized by law.
A look at three representatives of Spanish conservatism: Donoso Cortés, Ramiro de Maeztu, and Elias de Tejada.
The monstrosities in Israel crowd out moral ambivalence, but there are those whose bloodlust was merely whetted.