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This summer, classical Christian leaders will meet for a retreat centered on the enduring theme of goodness as understood through the classical and Christian tradition. The Society for Classical Learning (SCL) is hosting their 2026 Summer Conference from June 16 to 18. The theme of the conference is “Overflowing Generosity . . .

The February 2026 issue of First Things magazine includes articles by Scott Yenor (“The Rise and Fall of Gay Activisim”), Spencer A. Klavan (“In the Footsteps of Aeneas”), Gilbert Meilaender (“The Failure of Bioethics”) . . .

Dr. Julia Wattacheril will explore the breakdown in trust in and among physicians and scientists over the past decades:: “Systemic failures, perverse incentives, and institutional betrayal have left them longing for a way forward . . .”

On February 7, 2026, the Eliot Society will sponsor a lecture by author Heidi White. The event will be held at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Crownsville, Maryland . . .

The CiRCE Institute’s National Conference, the theme of which is “A Contemplation of Revolution,” will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, from July 16–18, 2026. The conference is already sold out, but . . .

The January/February 2026 issue of Touchstone includes essays by Brad Wilcox (“Knot Now”), Sarah Winter (“Camp Mystic”), Mark Perkins (“Male Pattern Boldness”) . . .

The current issue of The New Atlantis (No. 83) includes essays such as “American Diner Gothic” (Robert Mariani), “The Bill That Destroyed Urban America” (Joseph Lawler), “Who Decides on Emergency Abortions after Roe?” (Leah Libresco Sargeant), “Does MAGA Actually Want . . .

The Fall 2025 issue of The Hedgehog Review explores a double theme: “The Culture of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right.” Contributors include Janelle Bouie (“My Charlottesville”), Tara Isabella Burton (“Vital Signs”), Antón Barba-Kay . . .

The theme of the current issue of Local Culture (Vol. 7.2) is “Work and Leisure.” This volume contains essays from Wendell Berry (“Work as Privilege and Blessing, Hardship and Pleasure”), Joseph Orso (“All Work, All Play”), Nathan Payne (“An Albatross around Our Necks”), Adam Smith (“The Work of Leisure”) . . .

The current issue of First Things magazine includes articles by Jaspreet Singh Boparai (“Caravaggio and Us”), Louise Perry (“Indigenous London”), Erik Varden (“In Praise of Translation”), Aaron M. Renn (“The Problem of the Evangelical Elite”) . . .

Articles in the Fall 2015 issue include the following, plus many more: “The Crisis of Authority,” by D. C. Schindler; “The Form of Power,” by Andrew Willard Jones; “The Authority and Eccentricity of Reason,” by Jacob Sherman . . .

The theme of the Fall 2025 issue of New Polity magazine is “The Critique of America.” This issue includes essays by Reuben Slife on America and the Structures of Sin, David L. Schindler on America’s Atheism, Michael Hanby on the American “People,” Michael Higgins on Freedom in Aquinas . . .

The Humanum Review is currently running a four-part series on the theme of power. Issue 4 in this series examines the idea of power and authority in the Church, with essays by Bishop Massimo Camisasca, Fr. Antonio López, Fr. Carter Griffin, and Sr. Annie Devlin . . .

The current issue of Modern Age is available to readers now. It includes essays and commentary by Christopher Sandford (“Margaret Thatcher at 100”), Jennifer Conner (“Lacordaire’s Legacy and Leo XIV”), Luke Foster (“The Spirit of a Gentleman”) . . .

On February 27 and 28, 2026, the Pontifical John Paul II Institute will hold a conference on the theme of “Nature, Grace, and Culture: Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Contemporary Atheism.” The conference will explore the debate concerning nature and grace . . .

The current issue of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity includes essays by C. R. Wiley (“Making the Best of Dystopia”), Anthony Esolen (“Prodigious Adolescence”), Donald T. Williams (“The Fixed Pains of Hell”), N. E. Ziegenhagen (“The Priest and the Magician”) . . .

New Polity has released a special double issue focused on artificial intelligence, with thoughtful engagement from 11 different writers and thinkers, including Andrew Willard Jones (“The Humane and the Technocratic”), Matthew Crawford (“Losing Ourselves in AI”), Paul Kingsnorth (“Our Unsettling”), Slavoj Žižek (“The Death of the Internet”) . . .

The current issue of First Things magazine includes articles by Hans Boersma (“Modernity and God-Talk”), Louise Perry (“Indigenous London”), Justin Lee (“The Death of Halloween”) . . .

On Saturday, November 1, the Eliot Society will host an evening of songs and stories with musician Matthew Clark. Clark is a singer/songwriter and storyteller from Mississippi. He has recorded several full length albums . . .

The current issue of Communio focuses on education. From the introduction to the issue: “Many of its essays are the maturation of insights first presented at a conference at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America during the fall of 2024, with the theme, ‘The Rediscovery of Reality: Education and the Catholic Imagination’ . . .

The recent issue The New Atlantis includes articles by Jennifer Block (“What Comes After Gender Affirmation?”); Charles C. Mann (“Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve”); Bill Drexel (“The AI Genetics Revolution Is Coming”); Hannah Rowan (“An Ozempic in Every Lunch Box”) . . .

The current issue of First Things magazine includes articles by Matthew W. McGuire (“The Cambrian Explosion”), Mary Eberstadt (“Finding Private Roy”), Nicholas Prassas (“B. F. Skinner Is Back”), and Carl S. Trueman (“Toward a New Humanism”) . . .

On Saturday, October 4, the Eliot Society will host classical educator Monica Godfrey to talk about how visual art and poetic verse intersect uniquely in ekphrasis, poetry composed about or in response to a piece of art . . .

On October 2, 2025, Dr. Jennifer Frey will give the 30th Annual Holmer Lecture in Christianity and the Humanities, sponsored by Anselm House and the Center for Faith & Learning. Dr. Frey will explain how Flannery O’Connor’s fiction may be better understood by appreciating how influenced she was by St. Thomas Aquinas’s thought . . .

Paul Kingsnorth will give a lecture at Providence College based on his forthcoming book Against the Machine: The Unmaking of Humanity. The organizers of the event write, “The crisis of modern times is resisting the encroaching force Paul Kingsnorth calls the Machine . . .”

The September/October 2025 issue of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity includes essays by Louis A. Markos (“Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray”), Rod Dreher (“The Urgency of Wonder”), Wilfred M. McClay (“The Baptism of the Imagination”) . . .

On October 17, 2025, the Theopolis Institute and Immanuel Reformed Church will co-host a conversation on Tim Keller’s life and legacy between James Wood, author of the widely-discussed essay, “How I Evolved on Tim Keller,” and Collin Hansen, author of the intellectual biography, Tim Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation . . .

The Society for Classical Learning (SCL) is hosting their 2025 Fall Retreat in Dallas, Texas, from October 23 to 25. The theme of the conference is “Recovering Goodness in Classical Christian Leadership,” and the retreat will be hosted by the Covenant School of Dallas . . .

The Winter 2025 issue (6.1) of New Polity contains essays by Lorenzo Albacete on the “new evangelization,” Rocco Buttiglione on Our Lady of Guadalupe, Alberto Methol Ferré on “the world” and “the peoples,” Marc Barnes on godparent age . . .

On September 22, 24, and 26, Carl A. Anderson will present the 2025 McGivney Lecture Series, entitled “Conscience as a Political Problem: Faith, Culture, and Christian Statesmanship.” These lectures will examine the historical challenges to Catholic participation in presidential politics, how these challenges were overcome, and the contemporary role of Catholics in public life . . .