Arts & Letters

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Jacques and Raïssa Maritain. by Jean-Luc Barré. Notre Dame University Press, 528 pages, $50. First published ten…

Rutler: Words and Reality

Fr. George Rutler

Lewis Carroll anticipated the word games that demagogues play when he had Humpty Dumpty say, “When I…

Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar

John Rose

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

John Rose

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

Ryan T. Anderson

Democrats need to get religion, or so say political analysts in the wake of the 2004 election…

“The Incredibles,” “The Science of Sleep”

Frederica Mathewes-Green

“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…

Correspondence

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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…

Richard John Neuhaus

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…

Richard John Neuhaus

It is getting the attention it deserves in avowedly conservative circles, but Ramesh Ponnuru’s fine book The…

Correspondence

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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…

Richard John Neuhaus

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…

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…