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38.2—Mar/Apr, 2025
What Is Christianity? The Last Writings of Benedict XVI
38.2—Mar/Apr, 2025
Presents Manzoni on Deadly Detraction
37.3—May/June, 2024
The Russian Idea of Good & Evil
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
Flannery O'Connor & the Pantocrator
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Why I Purchased These Twenty Books for a Newlywed
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
The Hard Ascent to a Bewildering Virtue
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Notes Toward the Restitution of Christian Culture
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Understanding the Holy Spirit in Italian hymns
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
One Hundred Years in the Unreal City
Christian Prophecy in The Waste Land
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
The Reality of Divine Law
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
Bright Valley of Love by Edna Hong
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
on E-Prime
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Necessary Failure of Inclusive-Language Translations
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Grammar of Wisdom & the Rhetoric of Prophecy
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Lion, the Witch & the Warthog
on Enjoying Books Aloud, Alone & at Parties
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
on Russell Kirk's "Ex Tenebris" & the Moral Imagination
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare edited by Jan H. Blits
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
A Good Reason for the Appearance of Tolkien's Obvious Misfit
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Sinful Atmospherics in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
on the Philosophy of Education of Aristotle & Paul
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph T. Stuart
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
James Lindsay's Search for Love & Meaning Without God
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
The Cascading Beauty of Fractals in C. S. Lewis, Scripture & Art
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
Authority & Obedience in Our Stories
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
on Abraham, Aeneas & Our Heroic Tradition
35.1—January/February, 2022
Milton's Satan & the Confusion of the Mind
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
on Experiencing Grief at Christmastime
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
Letters of the St. Nicholas League
When Once 100,000 Children Wrote the Best Magazine That Ever Was
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
Reading Beowulf, Magnifying Christ
What Tolkien Taught Me About the Gospels
34.4—July/August, 2021
How the Great-Souled Tuscan Saved My Life
34.4—July/August, 2021
Dante's Way of Boundless Love
34.2—March/April, 2021
The Long Dark Tunnel of Resentment
34.1—January/February, 2021
The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord by Anthony Esolen
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
The Dramatic Life & Legacy of Dorothy L. Sayers
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
on Masking the Human Countenance
33.4—July/August, 2020
on Reading in the Service of Christian Living
33.2—March/April, 2020
Lewis, Chesterton, et al. Against the Frauds, Experts & Revisionists
33.2—March/April, 2020
33.2—March/April, 2020
33.2—March/April, 2020
on the Necessary Limits on the Wandering Christian Mind
33.2—March/April, 2020
33.2—March/April, 2020
33.2—March/April, 2020
32.6—November/December, 2019
Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers
32.6—November/December, 2019
The Holy Spirit Is Alive & Active in Narnia
32.4—July/August, 2019
Reception, Gratitude, & Witness on a Christian Campus
32.2—March/April, 2019
Misguided Mercy & Dante's Infernal Purgation
32.1—January/February, 2019
Maternity in Literature & Our Need to Find Better Words for Large Families
31.6—November/December, 2018
on Futility & the Open Door to Deliverance
31.6—November/December, 2018
on the Paradiso as Light for the Christian Mind
31.5—September/October, 2018
on Graham Greene's Whisky Priest
31.5—September/October, 2018
on Jewish Liturgy & Deeper Christian Exegesis
31.4—July/August, 2018
The Difficulty of Apologetics for Dead Souls in the Real World
31.4—July/August, 2018
on Virtual Reality versus Real Personality
31.3—May/June, 2018
The Last Will & Testament of Umberto Eco
31.3—May/June, 2018
on the Craft of Creating Worlds of Words
31.1—January/February, 2018
Joy by Georges Bernanos, tr. Louise Varèse
31.1—January/February, 2018
31.1—January/February, 2018
Hiding Foul Things with Garments of Legal Fictions
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Neither Dostoevsky nor Prince Myshkin Makes the Case
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
on C. S. Lewis, Brideshead Revisited & the Middle Things
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
on Costly Grace in Breece D'J Pancake's Flyover Country
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
How Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Saved Me
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
on Emily Dickinson & the Source of Our Hope
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
Two Tales of God-Talk on Death Row
30.3—May/June, 2017
on Modern Education as a Deal with the Devil
30.2—March/April, 2017
Western Literature & the Illumination of a Divine Attribute
30.2—March/April, 2017
on Reading Don Quixote in Its Original Christian Context
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
The Mustard Seed & the Wonders of His Kingdom
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
The Clash Between Religion & Secularism Overshadows The Clash of Civilizations
29.5—Sept/Oct, 2016
The Modern Versions Are Neither Feminine nor Heroic
29.5—Sept/Oct, 2016
Heroic Service Is More Accessible to Christian Men than Nuptial Imagery
28.6—Nov/Dec, 2015
The Surprising Beauty of Divine Providence in Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast"
28.5—Sept/Oct, 2015
Christian Heroism & Humility in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien
28.4—July/Aug, 2015
on the Cure for Any Identity Crisis
28.3—May/June, 2015
Whittaker Chambers's Lonely War Against Godless Collectivism
27.5—Sept/Oct, 2014
Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture, St. John's Proemium & Intercultural Understanding
27.4—July/August, 2014
The Art & Craft of Shakespeare
An Interview with Peter Leithart
26.6—Nov/Dec, 2013
The Great Epics Are Theological & Mark the Hard Path to Beatitude
26.4—July/August, 2013
An Ancient Greek Drama Awakened a Powerful New Longing in Its Audiences
26.4—July/August, 2013
Hilton Kramer's Life of Cultural Discernment Meant Speaking Truth to Art
26.4—July/August, 2013
Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
26.4—July/August, 2013
on Why the Apostle to the Gentiles Changed His Name
26.4—July/August, 2013
26.4—July/August, 2013
26.3—May/June, 2013
26.3—May/June, 2013
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor
26.3—May/June, 2013
on G. K. Chesterton & the Art of Casual Sketching
25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012
Sherlock Holmes, Umberto Eco & the Search for Meaning
25.1—Jan/Feb, 2012
on What Raskolnikov Knew & Translators Have Lost
25.1—Jan/Feb, 2012
on Jack London’s Failure to Keep Morality Out of “To Build a Fire”
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
On Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture
24.3—May/June, 2011
C. S. Lewis & Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy
24.1—January/February, 2011
Ruminations on the Monstrous Envy of the Soul-Devouring State
24.1—January/February, 2011
Marriage Thrives in Reality, Not in Our Dreams
23.5—September/October, 2010
on the Cosmic Home Carl Sagan Couldn’t See
23.3—May/June, 2010
In the Christian World, Comedy Is King
21.7—September, 2008
Milton’s Postmodern Satan & His Disciples
20.6—July/August, 2007
The Beowulf Poet Was a Shrewd Christian Apologist
20.5—June, 2007
Christian Irony & the secrets of Kings & Gods
19.6—July/August, 2006
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
19.2—March, 2006
on the Truths That Mr. Darcy Taught Me About Marital Love
18.10—December, 2005
The Author of the 250-Year-Old Dictionary Was a True Man of the Word
18.2—March, 2005
On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility
13.4—May, 2000
An Introduction to the Thought of Dorothy L. Sayers Through Her Letters
14.4—May, 2001
The Ways We Find Faith: Intellect, Need & Interaction
15.4—May, 2002
Becoming Aeneas, Becoming Paul
Hell & Dante’s Education in Love
16.10—December, 2003
The Prophetic Legacy of Malcolm Muggeridge
15.1—January/February, 2002
Divine Providence in The Lord of the Rings
12.4—July/August, 1999
Science, Letters & the Recovery of Meaning
12.2—March/April, 1999
A Novelist Looks at Faith & Fiction
An Interview with Susan Howatch
10.4—Fall, 1997
T. S. Eliot on Literary Morals
On T. S. Eliot’s After Strange Gods
4.3—Summer, 1991
T. S. Eliot On Literary Morals
on T. S. Eliot’s After Strange Gods
3.3—Fall, 1989
Recent Catholic Literature from Japan by Kristopher H. Kowal
3.1—Winter, 1989
The Riddle of Papal Power
2.3—Spring, 1988
Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
edited by Joseph Frank and David I. Goldstein translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew
more from the online archives
33.2—March/April 2020
Encounters with Faith & Forgiveness in Communities of Faith by Nicole M. King
24.4—July/August 2011
The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan
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