3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (248+ words) On irruptions of the strange. Jude Russo is managing editor of The American Conservative. Like most Americans, I'm a rationalist at heart. These little eruptions of the strange into my life are mostly ignored or locked away for those big…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (224+ words) This is the last of the short columns, about nothing in particular, that I shall write for The Lamp. I felt I had gone as far as I could with a series of articles which were extremely personal. But these…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (187+ words) On an open question. Is Donald Trump antichrist? How does Trump fit in with this rogues" gallery? Obviously he is not the first politician to get sideways with a pope. Nor is he the first head of state with a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (166+ words) On biblical language and the weather. Get unlimited access to our complete archive when you subscribe. On the modern poor. The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, Virginia Woolf, ed. Urmila Seshagiri, Princeton University Press, pp. 144, $19. 95 On well-ordered family life....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (545+ words) Get unlimited access to our complete archive when you subscribe. Hannah Rowan is managing editor of Modern Age'and a fellow in the Robert Novak Journalism Program through The Fund for American Studies. Consider the Turkey, Peter Singer, Princeton University Press,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (623+ words) A prayer of the faithful I often hear at Mass is for the protection of all human lives "from conception to natural death." Hearing this makes me shiver in much the same way as would seeing someone pick up the…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (590+ words) I no longer like the Flashman books of George Mac Donald Fraser anything like as much as I once did. And one of my chief solaces was the Flashman series, then still young. These stories were supposedly the adult adventures of…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (458+ words) On Wittgenstein and the Creed. Get unlimited access to our complete archive when you subscribe. Paul J. Griffiths is a writer and theologian whose most recent book is Israel: A Christian Grammar (Fortress Press, 2023). On the writings of artificial intelligence. On…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (807+ words) On the future of drone warfare. Get unlimited access to our complete archive when you subscribe. Nic Rowan is managing editor of The Lamp. On the lure of the airport lounge. On two new types of guy. On the quest…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (57+ words) Odds and ends from staff and contributors. On a light show at'Notre-Dame Basilica of Montr'al. On the future of drone warfare. On the legacy of the Oxford Movement. On the modern poor. On Wittgenstein and the Creed. On the French…...