Letter to the Editor: December 2016

An Effective Corrective... The Odd Man Out... Exonerated by Science... Geocentrism: A Kernel of Truth... The Wrong Press... Rehabilitating the "Reformer"... When Is It Reasonable to Reject the Law?... A Plea from India... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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What Price a Punch in the Face?... Blast from the Past... Sixty Tons of Political Pressure... Paging Dr. Pepper... Hot Dogma... Shedding in Style... Writer's Remorse... Seeing the Real You... Generation Gap, Saudi Style... Marlowe Makes It Big... and more

New Oxford Notes: December 2016

To Kill in the Name of God Is Satanic... A Sign of Self-Contradiction

A Witness in Bangkok

AN ANNIVERSARY IN EXILE

Casey Chalk

The humiliations and defeats Michael and his family have endured are a testament to a family caught up in a story of redemption far greater than themselves.

The "Biggest Nothing" in History

ON THE WEST'S IDENTITY ANXIETY

Edwin Dyga

Anglophone societies might not be the direct heirs of the French Revolution itself, but they have been infected by its Jacobin social pathologies.

The Latin Mass After a Year's Attendance

WHAT I'VE LEARNED

Richard Upsher Smith Jr.

The extraordinary form has a depth of imagery that the post-Vatican II revisers of the Mass simply eschewed, especially as regards the eucharistic sacrifice.

The Inspiration of the Muses in Daily Life

TO LIVE WELL & ENJOY BEAUTY

Mitchell Kalpakgian

The Muses acknowledge man's need for art, beauty, play, and leisure to live well. Man needs what the inspiration of the Muses provides to give life to the spirit.

What Play Are You In?

GUEST COLUMN

Robert Barron

The drama of salvation history consists of five acts: Creation, the Fall, the Formation of Israel, the Coming of the Messiah, and the Church.

A Laborer in Darwin's Vineyard

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Dawkins debunks the fervent faith of his childhood as naïve and gullible. From what he says, however, it is evident that he once had a close relationship with God.

Briefly: December 2016

Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction... A Cut-and-Paste Country