Holding the Line

EDITORIAL

Pieter Vree

Despite our prided predictability, the NOR isn’t immune to the dual forces of inflationary economics and the widespread cultural antipathy to reading.

Letters to the Editor: October 2024

A Bureaucracy Devouring Its Prey... Transformed by Educational Freedom... Whitewashed Hypocrisy... Faithful to the Spirit & Letter... and more

The News You May Have Missed: October 2024

Justice for the Prayer Warrior... District of Crime... Bone of Contention... Cloudy with a Chance of… Fish Feud... Big League Faith... and more

Twilight of the Universities

SACRIFICING STUDENTS ON THE ALTAR OF IDEOLOGY

Caitlin Smith Gilson

Education steeped in transcendental Beauty and the Great Books of history is replaced by a dictatorial ugliness that flattens the passions and rids the heart of love.

What We Can Learn from James Bond about Western Civ

SHAKEN NOT STIRRED

Will Hoyt

I am convinced that the Bond series has functioned as the 20th-century edition of the Latinized (Virgilian) Homeric myth that has long served as our founding story.

Understanding the Sacrifice of Isaac

A “LIVING” PARABLE

Monica Migliorino Miller

Can the God who condemns the killing of the innocent be the same God who orders the innocent to be killed? How could God command such an action?

The Small Origins of Big Things

DIVINE DIRECTION

Jason M. Morgan

The religion that stole over the decrepit Roman Empire and turned its dross into golden filaments of faith was the greatest big thing from small beginnings that ever was.

Icons, Relics & Pilgrimages: A Secular Defense

GUEST COLUMN

Charles N. Bertolami

Even atheists understand the search for a lost wedding ring as a rational act that goes beyond strict economic value.

Clarifying Our Thinking about the Holy Land

SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Thomas Storck

It is time our government took seriously its purported commitment to peace and began the hard work of undoing decades of violence and counterviolence.

Genocide in Gaza: A Chronicle of Misery

Inez Fitzgerald Storck

We do not have to follow the logic of the Israel-Hamas conflict to make a moral judgment about the targeting of civilians.

Meet the New Puritans, Same as the Old Puritans

Alex Pinelli

How long can an ideology last when it is based on the demonization of entire sections of the population and on making oneself miserable in the process?

Briefly Reviewed: October 2024

The New Relativism: Unmasking the Philosophy of Today’s Woke Moralists... The Devil-ution of Society: From a Civilization of Life to a Culture of Death to an Age of Insanity