2020 - Comment Magazine

Jun 4, 2020 Essay

Locating Our Invisible Wounds

Confronting our blindness before and after the virus.

May 28, 2020 Essay

Vocation in a Time of Precedented Uncertainty

If it’s worth doing at any time, it’s worth doing now.

May 28, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

A Letter to Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) was a German philosopher known for his works in ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He was one of Europe’s most outspoken voices against Nazism and Communism. A convert to Catholicism, he had a...

May 28, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

A Letter to C.S. Lewis

Professor C.S. Lewis The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington, Oxfordshire, UK Dear Professor C.S. Lewis, I hardly mean to bother you. I know you receive thousands of letters each year and that it is your habit to answer all of your mail. I do not want to burden you with...

May 21, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

Dear America

Dear America, You have a memory and history problem. As a political science professor, I am privy to the background and the foreground of the cultural moment as I live vicariously through the lives of my students—active consumers and budding culture makers that they...

May 18, 2020 Symposium

Permanence amid Impermanence

How storms reveal our anchors.

May 18, 2020 Symposium

Welcome to the Apocalypse

The Veritas Forum hosted a commencement speech contest for the class of 2020, together with Comment and Augustine Collective. As Veritas wrote in the invitation to graduating seniors, “Some people describe commencement speeches as “cultural barometers” that offer...

May 18, 2020 Symposium

We Are the Unprecedented Ones

The Veritas Forum hosted a commencement speech contest for the class of 2020, together with Comment and Augustine Collective. As Veritas wrote in the invitation to graduating seniors, “Some people describe commencement speeches as “cultural barometers” that offer...