articles by R. V. Young
38.3 — May/Jun 2025
Sifting Through Cultural Debris
A Look Back at Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
37.3 — May/June 2024
A Christian Vision of the Secular World
Outside the Gates of Eden: Poems by David Middleton
35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare edited by Jan H. Blits
34.3 — May/June 2021
"Dense Poems and Socratic Light": The Poetry of John Martin Finlay (1941-1991)
edited by David Middleton and John P. Doucet
34.2 — March/April 2021
Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology Through Christian Eyes by Louis Markos
30.6 — Nov/Dec 2017
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark
28.3 — May/June 2015
Of Bicycles, Sex, & Natural Law
Describing Human Ends & Our Limitations Is Neither Futile Nor Unloving
27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014
Treatise on Human Nature: The Complete Text (Summa Theologiae I, Questions 75–102)
by Thomas Aquinas, translated by Alfred J. Freddoso
23.1 — January/February 2010
Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic
and Medieval Concepts
by Jame Schaefer
20.6 — July/August 2007
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
by Elizabeth Kantor
19.8 — October 2006
Paradise by Dante Alighieri,
edited and translated by Anthony Esolen
17.3 — April 2004
Inferno & Purgatory
by Dante Alighieri,
edited and translated
by Anthony Esolen
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