Anti-Semitism, we need to remind ourselves, is a Christian heresy that has been around since the beginning and, like a bad penny, keeps showing up to inflict its poison upon the world.
In “Veni Creator,” his lyric address to the Holy Spirit, Czeslaw Milosz reminds God of a couple of things, basic facts which, of course, God already knows: I am only a man: I need visible signs. I tire easily, building the stairway of abstraction. It probably never occurred to one of Poland’s premier poets of the last century that his hunger for concrete connection might work both…
