Susannah Black Roberts
4 articles
Schönbrunner gelb and Coffeehouses: Habsburg Cities and the Good of Cosmopolitan Christian Imperialism
What follows isn’t just because of the last few days, but the last few days have helped. The background is this: I’ve spent nearly the whole month of February in Venice, in a ground-floor apartment in Dorsoduro that I suspect used to house animals, based on its layout, but which…
The Laws and the Cosmos: A Brief Response to Stephen Wolfe on Cicero
I Natural Law This is a brief (well, briefer than it could be) first attempt at responding to a very small section of Stephen Wolfe’s recent book The Case for Christian Nationalism . It’s partial, deeply incomplete, and does not at all address the book as a whole; it is…
Danger and Play and Proverbs 31
On the Woman Question Strength and honor are her clothing And she shall rejoice in time to come. There’s been, I’m sorry to say, more Discourse. Primarily though not exclusively on Twitter. About the Woman Question, again. So I figured I’d make things a little worse by highlighting an aspect…
Will You Join in our Crusade?
One of the perpetual criticisms of musicals that their detractors make is that they are so annoyingly unrealistic: “Why do they just burst into song in the middle of the action?” It strains the willing suspension of disbelief. Plus, it’s cringe. Yet this will not do for a Theopolitan audience.…