In tune with the muses of Zion
Ken Myers on the Christmas music of Michael Praetorius
Why economists need meta-economics
Joseph Pearce on the key insight of E. F. Schumacher
The idolatry of giantism
E. F. Schumacher on why scale matters
Community, the giver of freedom
Thomas H. Naylor and William H. Willimon on why suspicion about big government shouldn’t take the form of autonomous individualism
The desires of the heart, the constraints of creation
Roger Lundin describes how Richard Wilbur’s poetry connects aesthetic experience to life in the world.
Islam vs. modern political categories
Historian Bernard Lewis on the blind spots of Western liberals
Islamic identity vs. nationalism
Bernard Lewis on how the anti-Western sentiment in the Middle East is only intelligible in theological terms
Islam and modern anti-Semitism
Bernard Lewis on the humiliating effect of the birth of modern Israel
The theonomic nature of conscience
Matthew Levering on Reinhard Hütter’s description of conscience: “Real conscience does not give free rein to a person’s desires.”
The aboriginal Vicar of Christ, the voice of God in the heart of Man
Reinhard Hütter on John Henry Newman’s insistence that conscience — rightly formed — bears witness to the law of God