Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Birch Trees in Sunlight
Though the clear morning stood composed”cloud, dew, and leaf, the whole shimmering wood” now it all seems…
Review of Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra HarperOne, 288 pages, $24.95 n The problem with the…
Lost in Space–Time
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Random House,…
The Magi
Christmas Eve, the Word made Flesh, We put the baby in the manger, But could not add…
The Great Hall
You need only have noticed someone once, and he will have an entree to your dreams for…
Brain Food
Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar by Paul Griffiths Catholic University of America, 235 PAGES, $24.95 n All…
Review of Money, Greed, And God
Money, Greed, And God: Why Capitalism Is The Solution And Not The Problem by Jay W. Richards…
Assaulting Arendt
The honorable tradition of criticism carries with it a displeasing aspect. This is especially the case in…
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…
Letters—December 2009
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.…
