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Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by stefan zweig pushkin press, 216 pages, $15.95 “No one should be denied the right to write his letter from the...

In trying to understand the extraordinary changes the Catholic Church underwent in the middle of the twentieth century, I recently came across two illuminating novels. The first was the last...

My commuter railway sent out the warning on a Friday afternoon in late December: No alcoholic beverages would be allowed on the trains this weekend. It was not a...

My family had been in Brooklyn (or, as I will ever call it, God’s country) for over a century, refugees from the Lower East Side and a Jacob Riis–style...

One of the last of the generation of critics that included Edmund Wilson, Irving Howe, and Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, who died yesterday at the age of 104, developed...

The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader ? by Wilson Carey Mcwilliams,? edited by Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. Mcwilliams ?University Press of Kentucky, 440 pages, $40...

The Myth of American Religious Freedom by David Sehat Oxford, 368 pages, $29.95 n Conservatives, argues David Sehat, profess religious freedom, but only to secretly assert the coercive power...

This week marks the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Russell Kirk. Kirk, who died in 1994, is best remembered for his role in helping to create the postwar...

Remember the culture wars? In light of September 11 and the continuing War on Terror, it seems hard to believe that there was a time when Jesse Jackson chanting...

What was perhaps the most pro-Christian show on television did not have a single Christian character in it¯and there was no way it could have. Rome , the hit...

Not so long ago, before the dot“com bubble“burst and the September 11 terrorist attack, it seemed as if history would deliver all good things. The Dow was continuing its...