Arts & Letters
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The Dawkins Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Free Press, 480 pages, $30…
Snow Weather
A falcon on a wire Against the laden sky Scanned his brown empire With a black-ice eye.…
All That Is Needed
For every lean brown cow, a makeshift shack for shelter made of splintered planks and poles, crowned…
The Four Quartets Revisited
On opening a long unopened book, What dank whiff rises from the parting pages, What genie is…
For Benson A. Koenig (1912_1997)
Battery A, 10th AART Battalion, U.S. Army North Africa and Italy, 1942“1944 Those last three days, reciting…
2009 December Letters
Cranky and Getting CrankierIn his June/July Public Square column, Joseph Bottum claims that the three infallible signs…
Majority
Now you’d be three, I said to myself, seeing a child born the same summer as you.…
Believer
My friend insists he wants me to be saved. He argues that my soul will come to…
In Between the Angels and the Apes
Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person BY Gilbert Meilaender Encounter, 180 pages, $21.95…
The Quest for the Confessional Jesus
The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus by Dale C. Allison Jr. Eerdmans, 126 pages, $16 Christians…
Economic Justice and the Spirit of Innovation
When the word morality comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually…
Death in Naples
The taxi driver shouted, “Tell us! Tell us!” when his other passenger, a local journalist, announced that…
What Marriage Is—And What It Isn’t
Everyone agrees that marriage, whatever else it is or does, is a relationship in which persons are…
The Beginning of Wisdom
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $29.50 Near the end of…
The Face of Civilization
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart Yale, 249 pages, $28…
