
Fingerprints of Historical Humanity
There is something uncanny about the evident humanness of an old artifact—and something comforting as well.

There is something uncanny about the evident humanness of an old artifact—and something comforting as well.

The woke style is a mawkish tribute to an imagined future in which ugliness and mediocrity slouch supreme.

The family recipe book is a vital part of the conservative cultural enterprise.

Our meditation for Christmas is the simple question of who and what we celebrate on Christmas Day, why it brings true and lasting joy, and why it changes everything.

In the current pontificate, power is exercised in a manner reminiscent of a banana republic.

To rebel against modernity may involve the overthrow of the modern in the interest of reviving something older.

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.
The Old and New Left share the same essential disdain for national, cultural, religious, and civilizational differences.
Marked by historical events of such magnitude as the two world wars, Tolkien and other Christian intellectuals of his day grappled with profound questions about the fate of the world.
The Bible reminds us that when the storm comes—and inevitably it will—we can look into the waves and the darkness, or we can look to Christ.
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.