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Perpetual Adolescence: A Review of Young Adult
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Uncanny Man
A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear Harvard, 224 pages, $29.95 Not long before 9/11, a young Harvard graduate, Jedediah Purdy, published a jeremiad against irony, For Common Things...
A Story From Before We Can Remember: A Review of Tree of Life
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Julie Taymor’s Tempest
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Dim and Dimiter
Dimiter by william peter blatty forge, 304 pages, $24.99 The Exorcist—as William Peter Blatty, the now eighty-two-year-old author of the original novel and the screenplay based on it, is...
Leo Strauss and the Second Cave
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Ralph McInerny (1929—2010)
According to Aristotle, is the performance of virtuous acts with ease and delight. On that basis, as well as others, Ralph McInerny was a remarkably virtuous man. One of...
Oscar’s Parochial World
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Children of Lesser Gods
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Baylor University’s New Starr
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Ralph McInerny (1929-2010)
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Whose Modernity? Which Revolution?
The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence By David Walsh Cambridge, 518 pages, $29.99 CHARLES TAYLOR ONCE lamented that, on the topic of modernity, scholars seem divided into...
The Ditchkins Delusion
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A Place in the Cosmos
The Writings of Charles De Koninck, Volume 1 edited by Ralph McInerny University of Notre Dame Press, 496 pages, $50 Founder of the Laval school of Thomism, a school...
Mind Games
Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Psychology by Fergus Kerr Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press, 119 pages, $19.95 As he lay dying, awaiting a last visit from friends, Ludwig...
