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The Domestic Lamp of Saint Joseph
Like that of a domestic lamp, which spreads modest and quiet light—provident, intimate, inviting us to a thoughtful and laborious… Read More
Against the New Nationalism
Edmund Waldstein
I first visited Ukraine in November of 1998, just a few days before my fifteenth birthday. I was travelling with… Read More
No thinking
Matthew Walther
M.R. James (edited by Darryl Jones)Collected Ghost StoriesOxford University Press, pp.512, $19.95 Patrick J. MurphyMedieval Studies and the Ghost Stories… Read More
You mad, bro(thers)?
Michael Hamill
As I write people are mad about Fratelli Tutti. I saw someone on Twitter who said she was angry that… Read More
The Bull Against Presidential Debates
We, in the name of God, Hadrian the Seventh, the Paparch, the Apostle of the Apostolic See and of the… Read More
Orson Welles’ Pisan Cantos
The dream in me.My saying so. You can’t emphasize ‘beef’,you want? ‘beef’, you want? In your is you want, I… Read More
How to be a radical
Urban Hannon
Back in my undergraduate days, some friends and I came across a collection of Ivy League lightbulb jokes, published by… Read More
Why I am alive
Matthew Walther
My mother became pregnant with me when she and my father were both seventeen years old. A glance at the… Read More
Why the Bear Chewing on My Leg Should Stop Doing That
Thomas. G. Wiggleby
The world is not what it once was. Tensions in America have never been higher. Today’s “Liberals” do not show… Read More
What we talk about when we talk about the pope
Michael Hamill
How should people talk about the Holy Father? To start with, I think non-Catholics should say whatever they want about… Read More
