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The King and the Swarm ([link removed])

by Mary Harrington

From the August/September issue: The digital is every bit as potent today as print was after Gutenberg in shaping consciousness. But it is formative in radically different ways, some of which undermine the development of that rational, analytic subjectivity upon which the modernist project is predicated.
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The Legacy of John MacArthur ([link removed])

R. Albert Mohler Jr.

In John Fullerton MacArthur Jr.’s church, the lines are straight, and all lines point to the pulpit, for there stands the preacher preaching the Word of God, and the preaching of the Word of God stands as the central act of Christian worship.
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The Great Excommunicator ([link removed])

by Christopher Caldwell

From the August/September issue: Sam Tanenhaus’s biography has brought to light William F. Buckley’s wit, hard work, gift for friendship, and extraordinary generosity to those he loved. Still, Tanenhaus lets drop some damnation-with-faint-praise that gives a lukewarm, and probably accurate, account of how posterity will see him.
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The 38th Annual Erasmus Lecture ([link removed])

featuring Erik Varden

Register to attend the 38th Annual Erasmus Lecture, featuring Bishop Erik Varden, “In Praise of Translation.” A Trappist monk, Bishop Varden was named bishop of Trondheim, Norway, by Pope Francis. He is the author of The Shattering of Loneliness and will speak on translation as a paradigm for engaging intelligently with otherness.
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Pope Leo and Traditionis Custodes ([link removed])

by Joseph Shaw

Journalist Diane Montagna’s recent publication of the alleged concluding section of the DDF’s report puts a very different perspective on how bishops felt about Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which was perceived by bishops as making things better, not worse.
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A Eulogy for Bullfighting ([link removed])

by Germán Saucedo

Bullfighting’s greatest virtue is that it forces the spectators to stare reality straight in the face. Because of man’s fall from the grace of God, we live in competition with the natural world. For man to thrive, he must displace and consume nature. This dominion requires violence and death.
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