Arts & Letters
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Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar
It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…
Rose: String Theory and All That
Depending on whom you ask, it’s either the holy grail of physics¯the prophesied Theory of Everything¯or a…
Anderson: The Parable of the Good Soccer Mom
Democrats need to get religion, or so say political analysts in the wake of the 2004 election…
“The Incredibles,” “The Science of Sleep”
“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…
Correspondence
The Wheaton from the Chaff As a Wheaton alumnus who has been received into the Catholic Church—and…
RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…
Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…
RJN: 6.7.06 It is getting the attention…
It is getting the attention it deserves in avowedly conservative circles, but Ramesh Ponnuru’s fine book The…
Correspondence
Rice That Springeth Green Cynthia Grenier’s review of Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt…
RJN: 6.01.06 Here’s a happy spin…
Here’s a happy spin. The headline in Catholic New York , “The Nation’s Largest Catholic Newspaper,” reads:…
JB: 5.19.06 We are pleased to…
We are pleased to announce that we have hired Anthony Sacramone to be the new Managing Editor…
Sacred Spaces & Other Places
A Sense pf the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Artby R. Kevin SeasoltzContinuum, 394 pages,…
Tsars & Commissars
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Cultureby Richard Pipes.Yale University Press, 216 pages, $30.…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
Body and Soul
The eight-hundredth anniversary of the death in 1204 of Rabbi Moses the son of Rabbi Maimon the…
Metaphysical Song
First principle, Being’s pure act, Infinite cause Of finite fact, Essential being, Beyond our sight, Without which,…