Spring 2026 · Vol. I · No. 2 Rabat · Paris · London

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Essays

Long-form criticism, personal essays, and dispatches on literature & ideas.

St Olaf, the English, and the Insufficiency of Institutional Religion

Essays

Religion

England

Identity

Recently I returned to London, the city of my childhood, in time to attend the founders’ commemoration of my former high school. Being an infrequent visitor to London, I was…

Jonathan Lancaster

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Empire

In Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd (2006), a film that traces the institutional origins of American intelligence through the biography of a single composite operative…