Totalitarianism in a new mode
John Milbank on how liberalism has a marked tendency to become illiberal
Feelings made articulate
Glenn C. Arbery on poetry and the intelligibility of the inner life
Words as fulcrums
Wendell Berry on the mediating responsibilities of poets
The rise of the “spiritual opera”
Richard Viladesau on the invention of the Passion oratorio
Bach’s Passions in context
Calvin Stapert on the evolution of an ancient musical-liturgical tradition
The Passion and compassion
Richard Viladesau on art, meditation, and the affections
Peter wept
Poetry and music from the sixteenth century imagining the sorrow of St. Peter in recognizing his betrayal of Jesus
The novelty of “science” and “religion”
Peter Harrison on the contingency of the boundaries that divide our lives
Shrinking sources of causality
David Bentley Hart on the loss of a recognition of inherent meaning in the natural world
Freed from the burden of choice
Writing in the mid-1990s, Alan Ehrenhalt reflects on the relationship between authority and community