Arts & Letters

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Rise of the “Unholy Left”

Michael P. Murphy

The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by michael…

2015: Our Year in Books

Various

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read…

Letters

Various

Africa John Azumah, author of “Through African Eyes” (October), has been my colleague and friend at Columbia…

Sabbath

Amy Imbody

Sabbath: You make demandsupon my heart, upon my hands,and, certainly, upon my mind:a quietness, profound, benignwhere receptivity…

Overlooked Philosophy

Robert L. Kehoe III

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II  by…

Baylor at the Crossroads

Francis Beckwith

I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in…

A Woman in the Seminary

Dawn Eden

I recently went to a vespers service at the institute of Catholic higher learning that I attend,…

Frames of Mind

Roberto De La Noval

My attention span is waning. I’ve noted it for the past couple of years: No longer can…

Close Reading in the Classroom

Andrew Ladd

Teaching Particulars, Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12  by Helaine L. Smith paul dry, 248 pages, $18.95 Too…

A Guide Through the Thicket

Jordan Hylden

Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace  by daniel a. westberg ivp academic, 281…

The Derridean Echo

Mark Bauerlein

When I read this story on the University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion asking students and…

Conservatives Confront Anti-Intellectualism

Christopher Scalia

The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism  edited by Mark Bauerlein…

Apostate

Peter J. Leithart

Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion  by Phil Zuckerman Oxford, 240 pages, $21.95 Atheism and religious…

Evangelicals in the World of Islam

Stephen Schwartz

American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam  by Christine Leigh Heyrman Hill & Wang, 352…

“In Bruges” in Bruges

Philip Bess

Rome is the foundation of the University of Notre Dame architecture and urban design curriculum, and properly…