The Lamp (magazine)
The Lamp is an American bimonthly magazine that discusses culture and politics from an orthodox Catholic perspective. It is published in print and online in Three Rivers, Michigan. It was founded in 2019 by Matthew Walther and William Borman. The magazine regularly features reporting, personal essays, and book reviews on a broad range of topics. It seeks “with reporting, incisive commentary, and coverage of books and the arts to bring the mind of the Church and a generous, urbane spirit to bear on the questions of modern life.” The Lamp has been described as “a Catholic version  of The New Yorker.” The magazine derives its logo from a previous British periodical of the same name, published by Thomas Earnest Bradley in the nineteenth century. History. Matthew Walther, then a columnist at The Week, founded the magazine along with William Borman after noticing that in an otherwise pretty wide and diverse landscape of Catholic media in the English-speaking world, there was nothing "that is actually a magazine, as opposed to a website or a newswire or what-have-you, that is orthodox." The Lamp seeks to fill that gap, "operating under the assumption that anything that is  good, true and beautiful falls within the purview of what should be in a good Catholic magazine." The magazine's first issue included an essay from Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance on his conversion to Catholicism. The Lamp regularly features work from prominent writers and public intellectuals, including Giorgio Agamben, Peter Hitchens, Sam Kriss, and David Bentley Hart. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat praised the magazine in April, 2021 as “Christian journalism that isn’t part of the culture war.” In another assessment, Stephanie Slade, managing editor at Reason, said that her “sense of the world [was] richer” after  reading the magazine.