The Viscerals of Monarchy: What Joan of Arc’s World Teaches Us About Hereditary Rule and the American Republic
Over the past several years, I have noticed an increasing number of thoughtful Catholics expressing nostalgia for monarchy. Reading Helen Castor’s Joan of Arc: A History reminded me how different monarchy looks when viewed not as an idealized abstraction, but as a functioning political system inhabited by real men and women with ordinary ambitions, rivalries,…