Book excerpt

Cultural historian Jeffrey L. Meikle on how the ubiquity of plastic affected the moral imagination of 20th-century Americans

Daniel Ritchie finds in the poetry of William Cowper (1731–1800) an anticipation of Michael Polanyi’s epistemology

Augusto Del Noce finds in St. Augustine resources to diagnose the fatal flaw in progressivism

Augusto Del Noce on the belief that science is the only true form of knowledge

Lesslie Newbigin on authority and the Author of all being

Lesslie Newbigin on the Church’s prophetic duty concerning public life

Lesslie Newbigin on the subversiveness of the Church’s message to the world

Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., on why Flannery O’Connor encouraged the cultivation of “Christian skepticism”

Literary critic Richard Gilman shares impressions of his relationship with Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor on why stories rely on the particularities of reality

J. Matthew Bonzo and Michael R. Stevens on Wendell Berry’s understanding of how Creation is a gift with certain givenness

Wendell Berry contrasts an economy of productivity (which invites extravagance) and an economy of thrift (which takes care of things)