Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Modernism, Science, and Spirituality
Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual by lynn gamwell princeton university press, 344 pages, $49.95…
Second-Hand Civ.
Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization by Rémi Brague Translated by Samuel Lester St. Augustine’s. 205…
Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy
In my early days of teaching introductory philosophy courses, I always lectured on Socrates’ understanding of the…
The Martin Buber Reader: Essential Writings
The 1920s and ’30s were a time of intense intellectual ferment in Germany. Radical questioning was the…
Natural Rights & the Right to Choose
The anti-abortion movement has been struggling since 1992, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe v. Wade and…
The Conundrum of Evil
evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy by susan neiman princeton university press, 358 pages,…
Poetry
Night falling early: silver in the duff, frosty small change, and in our maple, crows, calculating and…
Ethics Without God
J. Budziszewski’s article “The Second Tablet Project” (June/July) is the clearest, most cogent brief examination I have…
Teachers’ Guilt
In the middle of the fall semester, I find myself thinking back to the end of another…
Poetry
Drowned Lover Dearest enemy, so often unkind, my life was in your hands, until that wave of…
Briefly Noted 45
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society . By David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago…
Return to Reason
Stephen Toulmin’s Return to Reason provides an occasion to reflect on the remarkable fact that our faith…
Poetry
When my fantasies, and these extreme regrets, shut my eyes in sleep, I discover, before me, the…
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration—a somewhat mistitled, often uneven, but extremely provocative…
The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium, A Reporter’s Journey
Travel literature presents the reader with singular challenges, foremost among them the need to discern the limitations…
