Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Saving Rock and Roll
Rock and roll has a rebellious sound. I write that hesitantly, because there is really no such…
Progressive Rock Redeemed
On February 9, I had the pleasure of finally seeing one of my favorite bands for the…
The Joyless House of Cards
The second season of Netflix’s House of Cards introduces a new aide for Vice President Frank Underwood, who seems…
1945
Here is my dad in Manila. He is twenty-three years old. He is a master sergeant. His…
Apres moi, le Deluge
You needn’t be born a Bourbon To dream your funereal deluge, Some climactic climatic disturbance To rain…
On Taddeo di Bartolo’s “Triptych of the Madonna and Child”
“Triptych of the Madonna and Child with Angel Musicians, St. John the Baptist, and St. Jerome”(1400, in…
Democracy’s Revenge
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by john lucacs harvard, 240 pages, $24.95 n In the…
Forced Exit
Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization? by kevin yuill ?palgrave macmillan, 208 pages, $85 n…
Letters
Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in “Divorce and Remarriage” (August/September)…
On Libertines
How Sex Became a Civil Liberty? by leigh ann wheeler? oxford, 352 pages, $34.95 n The 2013…
Called by Him
In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine? by jean-luc marion? translated by jeffrey l. kosky…
Oh, Henry!
Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry? by gregory alan thornbury…
Prayer for a Meeting
Come, Holy Spirit, fill me with affection for sycophantic colleagues who pretend a boss’s remark is witty;…
Global Canon
The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community? by wm. theodore de bary ?columbia, 432 pages,…
Divided We Stand
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences? by david cannadine ?knopf, 352 pages, $26.95 n The history…
