The Lamp Magazine

The Lamp Magazine

The Lamp is a journal dedicated to Catholic literature, published every two months. Our goal is to provide readers with unique insights through detailed reporting, sharp commentary, and reviews of books and the arts. We aim to present a viewpoint that is often missing from other widely-read magazines in the English-speaking world: the perspective of unwavering Catholic orthodoxy.

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  • 1 week ago | thelampmagazine.com | Matthew Walther |J. Vance |Robert Wyllie |Peter Hitchens

    The sea used to get into everything in England, though now it doesn’t. We are not really a sea-faring people any more. Even the yearly joy of the ferry to France and back has been abolished, as you can now do the journey in a tunnel, aboard a comfortable train.

  • 3 weeks ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Jude Russo |Peter Hitchens |Robert Wyllie

    It is a hot June day, and my good friend Mr. Tom Collins is helping me noodle on what might be worth laying out in digital ink for the few, the proud, the loyal regular readers of the Russo Low Life. On the domestic front, things are the usual pleasant shambles. I have just discovered the toddler licking ketchup out of one of those little plastic trays shaped like bottles you get at Chick-fil-A now. (Did they have these when I was a child?

  • 1 month ago | thelampmagazine.com | Joseph Epstein |J. Vance |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths

    Alasdair MacIntyre began to mean something to me as a third-year university student, since After Virtue hit harder than anything else on the syllabi for PHIL 372 Contemporary Ethics and PLPT 407 Liberalism and Its Critics at the University of Virginia. The former was wonderfully taught by his last dissertation student, Rebecca Stangl.

  • 1 month ago | thelampmagazine.com | Joseph Epstein |J. Vance |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths

    Melancholy has settled in at the Russo manse. Journalism won the Preakness, but Pimlico is now closed indefinitely for renovations—that is to say, destruction and new building on the site—and vaguely described efforts to spruce up the track’s down-at-the-heels neighborhood. Disinterested observers expect this to go about as well as any other urban renewal project in Baltimore. Wednesday saw preschool graduation, which yanked a crystalline bead or two from your humble correspondent’s gleaming orbs.

  • 1 month ago | thelampmagazine.com | Alexander Larman

    When Minoo Dinshaw published his first book, Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, in 2016, it was hailed as a highly impressive and distinctive debut. Dinshaw approached his subject, Sir Steven Runciman, not as a dry-as-dust academic but as a Zelig-like figure with a vitally important symbiotic relationship to the scholarship, and inhabitants, of the twentieth century.

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