The Roman imagination is vast, and so is the human propensity to wonder. That is why Rome endures.
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Imaginatio Romana est immensa, atque eadem mens humana est mirari. Ideo Roma perseverat.
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Between its sturdy build and historical and spiritual content, the 1962 missal is not yet a museum piece, even if its contents haven’t been updated in 56 years.
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How do you know when you are not just in a crisis, but the crisis? A period so long, lurching from moment to moment, that it transcends a single event and becomes the event itself. In other words, the Long Crisis.
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A few spices, butter, and a simple rice stuffing turns a whole chicken into instant comfort food, complete with a self-contained side.
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The debates of the 21st century can obscure the vision of the Founders and the context within which they operated. “The last best hope” can sound pompous, even a little arrogant, and perhaps as a way to paper over the real issues affecting real people. But there is a reason that motif has survived since the Founding, and that reason is because it is true.
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My time spent with people exploring Rome’s labyrinth of churches, streets, restaurants, museums, churches, and cafes and praying, learning about art, history and the Italian language, and of course eating, and drinking cappuccinos, espressos, and wine, allowed my friends and I to embrace challenges, differences, and build authentic and lasting relationships.
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The arguments made to advance abolition, civil rights, and the preferential treatment of the weak and disabled in our society have been advanced on terms inherited from Rome and from the faith Rome embraced.
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Ballpark is an epic work and an excellent contribution to the discussion of baseball’s past, present, and future. It perfectly articulates what baseball has meant and continues to mean in the American city.
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The exploration of space fills even the skeptical with a religious awe. The perspective of human smallness, of universal bigness, pries an abrupt crack in the mundanity of daily life. It shakes us with that combination of trembling fear and exaltation that the Romantics called ‘the sublime’.
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Some bands either have it or they don’t. The Black Keys have “it” — that deep well of creativity that allows them to make an effortlessly excellent album like “Lets Rock” after a five-year break. It is not the band’s best production, but for fans of contemporary rock it more than fits the bill.
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Most of the country is rooting against the Golden State Warriors in the 2019 NBA Finals. The reasons are are as cultural as they are geographical, contributor Zac Davis writes.
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If we can retain the poetry and community of baseball maybe we can rediscover it elsewhere, too, and begin the work of re-knitting the social fabric that keeps this country and its people from dividing and breaking apart.
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“A Representative who displays the Confederate flag on his desk—a flag many Iowa boys died to take down forever—can represent us no longer,” guest contributors and native Iowans Joe Carroll and Jim Kirkwood write. “The next person to represent Iowa’s fine 4th district must embody the spirit of neighborly charity in which Iowans take pride.”
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Chicago is not an “oasis of interest in a Midwestern desert,” contributor Jacob Bruggeman writes, “but an epicenter of regional activity that shares in the rich environments, diverse cultures, and a revival of the heartland on the national stage.”
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