Arts & Letters
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American Judaism: A History
This year marks the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America. In 1654, twenty-three Jews arrived…
Editorial Secrets Revealed
Paul Johnson says an important part of it in his introduction to The Norman Podhoretz Reader (Free…
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. By Michael McGerr.…
Luther, the Controversy
I noted with interest Edward T. Oakes’ review of Luther (“Luther, the Movie,” January). His remarks about…
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“We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. By David Herbert Donald. Simon & Schuster. 269…
Alone in the Academy
I was starting the second year of a Ph.D. program in U.S. history at the University of…
Common Sense and Common Law
Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism.by James R. Stoner, Jr.University Press of Kansas. 208 pp. $29.95. For most…
Letters
The Church and the Holocaust To the extent that it is read by Catholic apologists and others…
Immigration and the Common Culture
Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of…
Baptizing Middle-Earth
J R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, “Being a cult figure in one’s own lifetime I am…
Seekers and Finders
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus &…
The Reality of the Beautiful
Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue Yale University Press. 209 pp. $24.95 Several days after the massacre…
The Limits of Theory
Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications by Daniel N. Robinson Princeton University Press Praise and…
Too Much Democracy?
The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby fareed zakariaw.w. norton, 286 pp, $26.95 Since ancient…
September Letters
In “Ordaining Women: Two Views” (April), Sarah Hinlicky Wilson writes that “if the female cannot represent Christ…
