Falling Off Trend

Literary culture treats motherhood as an obstacle to freedom. I have found that domesticity offers its own quiet rebellion.
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The Irresponsible Magid

 Shaul Magid’s essay “Kahane Nation?” (Sept. 10, 2026) moves quickly from Meir Kahane’s advocacy for violence in the late twentieth century to American Jews buying firearms in response to antisemitism in the past few years. Magid then reminds readers that Kahane’s movement provided security at synagogues and protested anti-Israel events. “Sound familiar?” he asks.  That rhetorical question is the problem with his “argument.” Yes, synagogue security sounds familiar. So do Jewish fears of antisemitism, doubts about institutional protection, protests against…

Falling Off Trend

By Amelia Morris
If you can, try to publish before you have kids. This was the parting advice from one of my MFA professors, with whom I’d been studying creative writing for two years. It was the way she said it, too: both apologetic and practical. She was sorry she had to say it, but this was the reality. I didn’t ask any follow-up questions. I understood. I was 26. I’d gone to a top liberal arts college. My female friends with whom I’d graduated were also seeking postgraduate degrees or they were in hospital residency programs. One was working 16-hour days for…

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Blake Smith: How does Christianity help us mediate, as you suggest, between the worst sort of collectivism and the worst sort of individualism? Or perhaps mediate is the wrong word, since these two “worsts” do so often go together! Let’s say, transcend?
Julius Krein: I don’t think it’s anything more complicated than Christianity’s consciousness of the division between the City of God and the City of Man, “render unto Caesar,” and so on. But this distinguishes Christianity from the other monotheistic religions as well as ancient paganism and, I would argue, “rational” philosophy. This distance allows for another dimension or perspective from which to approach the relationship between the individual and the collective.