American Politics
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The God of the Philosophers
Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth by mortimer j. adler macmillan,…
Evangelicals and Politics
The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square by james w. skillen zondervan, 225 pages…
Not the Catholic Moment?
The Church, Pilgrim of Centuries by thomas molnar eerdmans, 182 pages, $15.95 Perhaps of all world religions,…
At the Concert
There! He’s one of the first onstage! A less disheveled crowd than usual . . . Under…
Pop Goes the Culture
We made a mistake in a recent public symposium by saying, in response to a question, that…
The University in Moral Shambles
The good news is that more people are paying attention to the bad news. In the past…
Liberation Theology-What’s Left
Among the far-reaching effects of the great antisocialist revolutions of 1989 is one that has so far…
Immortal Florence
Dante and Michelangelo You were here; Brunelleschi, Donatello, Savonarola, the Medici, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, Leonardo da Vinci—All left their mark; But none is so…
The Christian Intellectual Tradition
It is easy to get religion, something else to hold on to it. It’s like dieting—many find…
War Games
Summertime on Mama Bell’s back stoop,it always started with someone saying, “Your mama don’t wear no drawers”—school kids…
The Unmodern Jew
I I would like to have an answer. . . . If someone will be good enough…
The Advent of Literary Science
It is now more than thirty years since C. P. Snow’s Cambridge Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures…
The Decline and Fall of the Christian College (II)
The first part of this essay, published in last month’s issue, recounted how the process of estrangement…
Pacifism, Just War & the Gulf: An Exchange
IJanuary 30, 1991 Dear Richard, Your column in the Wall Street Journal (January 23, 1991), “Just War…
Olive Bed
“There was a bole of an olive tree with long leaves growing Strongly in the courtyard, and…
