Arts & Letters

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JB: 5.19.06 We are pleased to…

Joseph Bottum

We are pleased to announce that we have hired Anthony Sacramone to be the new Managing Editor…

Sacred Spaces & Other Places

Catesby Leigh

A Sense pf the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Artby R. Kevin SeasoltzContinuum, 394 pages,…

Tsars & Commissars

Daniel J. Mahoney

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Cultureby Richard Pipes.Yale University Press, 216 pages, $30.…

Body and Soul

David Novak

The eight-hundredth anniversary of the death in 1204 of Rabbi Moses the son of Rabbi Maimon the…

The Mad Scientists’ Club

Joseph Bottum

The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…

Metaphysical Song

Helen Pinkerton

First principle, Being’s pure act, Infinite cause Of finite fact, Essential being, Beyond our sight, Without which,…

The Watch and Ward Society

Joseph Pearce

A book should not be judged by its cover; nor, perhaps, should it be judged by its…

The Decent Drapery of Life

Joseph Bottum

The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling By Gertrude Himmelfarb Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages,…

Religion and the Legitimate State

Alan L. Mittleman

The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally…

RJN 2.8.06 There are many things

Richard John Neuhaus

There are many things that need to be said about the Muslim reaction to those cartoons in…

Spirit in the Abstract

Algis Valiunas

The last American painters of colossal spiritual ambition were such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett…

East of Eden

Gregory Feeley

Fallen by David Maine St. Martin’s, 256, $23.95 The Perservationist by David Maine St. Martin’s, 240 pages,…

Advent Windows

Kevin Andrew Murphy

Holy Holle, Mother Winter, Shakes her eider till it flutters, Till the ticking frees its feathers, Drifting,…

RJN: 11.29.05 In the Washington…

Richard John Neuhaus

In the Washington Post ( November 18 ), Michael Kinsley returns to the complexity of abortion politics.…

Walking the Sea

Valerie Wohlfeld

Walking the sea, I think of the small diaspora of the hermit crab, and the unshackled shell.…