In today’s first “On the Square” article, Losana Boyd reviews a new collection of poems, Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City . “Brokenness haunts the pages” of the book, she writes in A Poet Haunted by Brokenness ., and the poet’s work “focuses on illuminating the life of the mind through a tapestry of richly drawn and arresting images.”
Coming a little later is a second “On the Square” by law professor Richard Stith on what the Republicans should do to the health care bill. And if you missed them, do go back and read the rest of this week’s offerings:
- R. R. Reno’s American Politics, the Higher Politics, and First Things .
- Ashley Samelson McGuire’s Cult Complex .
- Joe Carter’s There is No Tea Party Movement .
- George Weigel’s Thoughts at the Alamo .
- Elizabeth Scalia’s The Quiet Power of Our Sacred Honor .
- Gregory Laughlin’s Video Games and Judicial Common Sense .
- David Mills’ The Changed Times Don’t Last .
- David Poecking’s The Skeleton of Genuine Reconciliation .
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