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Wisdom in the Wake of Liberté

Jeffrey A. Smith

A familiar charge by critics of today’s Church is the accusation that John Paul II and Benedict XVI have reacted against or “betrayed” the balance Vatican II struck between...

Dreams of Heaven

Jeffrey A. Smith

The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by john gray farrar, straus and giroux, 288 pages, $24 Few historians of culture would think to suggest...

Romanticism Unbound

Jeffrey A. Smith

The Romantic Revolution: A History by tim blanning modern library, 272 pages, $22 The very aim that united the romantics—to express feeling—makes it impossible to define romanticism precisely. The...