American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Death for Fun and Profit
The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun) by Vladimir Nabakov Alfred A. Knopf, 278 pp., $35 SOMEWHERE…
Wondrous and Silly
On a bright day in early autumn, I found myself sitting on the floor of my favorite…
In America’s Image
How American Experience Reflects Global Faith By Mark Noll InterVarsity, 212 pages, $25 EIGHT YEARS AGO, Diana…
Thrillers and Throwbacks
Few of the current trends in crime- and mystery-fiction are salutary ones. The ascendancy of the thriller…
Whose Modernity? Which Revolution?
The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence By David Walsh Cambridge, 518 pages, $29.99 CHARLES TAYLOR…
Justifying Paul
Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision By N.T. Wright InterVarsity, 268 pages $25 NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED years…
Heavy Water
Heavy water, holy water, we are weighed on By your waterweight, you proton- Poisoned fission vintage we…
Sacred Music, Sacred Time
What is sacred music? If we simply mean music that assists liturgy or prayer, the category includes…
God’s First Love: The Theology of Michael Wyschogrod
Paradox attends the influence of Michael Wyschogrod, perhaps the most original Jewish theologian of the past half…
Gambling with Lives
The fifty-something lab technician swabbing my arm before a routine test this past May nodded toward the…
Do Whatever He Tells You: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Christian Faith and Life
In 1994, after intense study, discussion, and prayer, we issued a statement titled “Evangelicals and Catholics Together:…
Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose
Which produced more civilizations, yellow grass or green? Who made poverty legal? Who made poverty at all?…
Be Afraid—Be Very Afraid
The horror-film genre is multiplying like one of its own monsters, showing six-fold growth over the past…
Priest to Pontiff
Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait by peter seewald ignatius, 260 pages, $24.95 When Peter Seewald published a…
Origin of the Specious
I suppose it would sound somewhat bigoted of me to say that readers should be suspicious of…
