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The new religion offers no prospect of salvation or redemption.

I have written before about how to talk about the pope, and here I am writing about it again, at…  Read More

On the need to sing and keep going.

A reminiscence of the storied Dominican theologian.

This year Tʜᴇ Lᴀᴍᴘ is sponsoring a Christmas ghost story competition in the spirit of Dickens and M.R. James. When…  Read More

In 1956, my grandfather had just gotten out of the Army, and was living with his family in Brighton, on…  Read More

Of all the male love interests in Jane Austen, Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey has always seemed to me easily…  Read More

Helen Andrews Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster Sentinel, pp.256, $27.00   Helen Andrews just…  Read More

On glimmers of light from a CRT landscape.

On December 23, 2020, when others were preparing for a different nativity, the mayor of Washington, D.C., announced that the…  Read More