Arts & Letters
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Rise of the “Unholy Left”
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by michael…
2015: Our Year in Books
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read…
Letters
Africa John Azumah, author of “Through African Eyes” (October), has been my colleague and friend at Columbia…
Sabbath
Sabbath: You make demandsupon my heart, upon my hands,and, certainly, upon my mind:a quietness, profound, benignwhere receptivity…
Overlooked Philosophy
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II by…
Baylor at the Crossroads
I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in…
A Woman in the Seminary
I recently went to a vespers service at the institute of Catholic higher learning that I attend,…
Frames of Mind
My attention span is waning. I’ve noted it for the past couple of years: No longer can…
Close Reading in the Classroom
Teaching Particulars, Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12 by Helaine L. Smith paul dry, 248 pages, $18.95 Too…
A Guide Through the Thicket
Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace by daniel a. westberg ivp academic, 281…
The Derridean Echo
When I read this story on the University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion asking students and…
Conservatives Confront Anti-Intellectualism
The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism edited by Mark Bauerlein…
Apostate
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman Oxford, 240 pages, $21.95 Atheism and religious…
Evangelicals in the World of Islam
American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam by Christine Leigh Heyrman Hill & Wang, 352…
“In Bruges” in Bruges
Rome is the foundation of the University of Notre Dame architecture and urban design curriculum, and properly…