Letter to the Editor: May 2018

Who Will Outlast Whom?... A Hopeless Proposition... Welcome to Your "Wow" Moment... Misguided Attempts to Undo the Indelible Past... So Much More to the Story... and more

The News You May Have Missed

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Thy Rods of Iron, They Comfort Me... Got It Bad, I've Been Shot by Teacher... Driverless Crime... Cold Contempt... Gym Jesus... Wal-Marriage... The Sexual Revolution at Disney... and more

New Oxford Notes: May 2018

Losing Our Religion... The New Hate Speech: Catholic Teaching at a Catholic College

Religious Rebirth in the Black Mountains

AMID BOUTS OF CONVERT BEWILDERMENT SYNDROME

Thomas Basil

A Montenegrin national census asked about religious affiliation. Seventy-two percent answered Orthodox, 3.5 percent Catholic, and 19 percent Muslim.

From a Witness in Bangkok to a Near Martyr in Karachi

THE LORD'S SUFFERING SERVANT

Casey Chalk

When we resist the demands of militant Islam, we are met not with pluralist-themed discussions or congenial tolerance but violence.

Are Islam & Democracy Compatible?

TOCQUEVILLE INVESTIGATES

Richard Fafara

Allah's laws and actions do not have to be reasonable; they simply have to be obeyed. Religious obligation flows not from reason or moral philosophy but from sharia law.

Why Are Things the Way They Are?

ON WHAT IS GENERATED BY THE HUMAN INTELLECT

James V. Schall

Philosophy is the quest for a knowledge of the whole. It is this knowledge that completes each of us and points us to the reality from which and in which we live.

Why Is the European Union Bullying Poland & Hungary?

GUEST COLUMN

Michael Wisniewski

Rather than fix what is broken, the EU intimidates member states to fix what they are told to fix.

Kindred Spirits, Fellow Victors

Christopher Beiting

Paul Kengor is an accurate historian who recognizes all the atrocities the USSR committed and the blight it cast across the 20th century.

Untiring Sentinels of the Coming Kingdom

Timothy D. Lusch

Simplicity and stability, as with solitude and silence, constitute the conditions within which the Carthusian seeks God.

Briefly: May 2018

The Ethics of the New Eugenics... Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being