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Maintaining a Discreet Silence

James Turner

The Idea of the University: A Reexamination by Jaroslav Pelikan Yale University Press, 238 pages, $30 The span of Jaroslav Pelikan’s academic career approaches half a century. In these decades...

History According to the Village Atheist

James Turner

The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century by Forrest G. Wood Alfred A. Knopf 517 pages, $29.95 I remember...