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The Lamp Christmas Ghost Story Contest
For the sixth year in a row, The Lamp is sponsoring a Christmas ghost story competition in the spirit of Dickens and M. R. James. When we say “in the spirit of,” we do not have in mind wan pseudo-Edwardian pastiches of James and others; we...
Everything Was Glorious, Everything Was Shabby
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” was one of the first pop songs I ever loved, but the first time I heard it, it was in Estonian. (Don’t ask.) Later, I heard a parody in which somebody sang a narration of the events of the song’s very silly, ver...
Do Not Ask Me to Stop
The shock of the news that we are at war with Iran has not worn off. I think this is because of my age; I became eligible to vote in Connecticut in 2007. That was the year that every single American appeared to remember how he had opposed t...
We Have to Do It Ourselves
Like many readers of this magazine, I had high hopes for Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical. When it began to be rumored a year ago that he would write on artificial intelligence, my ears were still ringing with the words he had spoken more th...
Finding the Blue Hour
One of my favorite scenes in any of Éric Rohmer’s films occurs in his picaresque Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle. Two young women are spending the night in a barn. One is from Paris; the other is a country girl. The second tells t...
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A Catholic journal of literature, science, the fine arts, etc.
Managing editor, The Lamp.
Attorney and homeschooling mom of four. Writing about women, children, families, and family policy.
Essayist + critic. I am also writing a book about science fiction. \ud83e\ude90 The dog's name is Boswell.
Matthew Walther is editor of The Lamp magazine.
Associate Professor of Political Science & Director of the Political Economy Program at Ashland University & the Ashbrook Center. Contributing editor at The Lamp.
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