What hath Hobbiton to do with Jerusalem?
Holly Ordway on the pre-Christian religion in Middle-earth
Political community and the good
D. C. Schindler on why political life is inevitably “a particular interpretation of the highest human good”
Scholarship’s silos and the eclipse of meaning
Paul Tyson on how the modern academy avoids engagement with Reality
Christ, the key to human meaning
Gil Bailie on how the coming of Christ affirmed the intelligibility of human history (and why the abandonment of Christ invites unreason)
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