Arts & Letters
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Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America. By Egal Feldman. University of Illinois Press. 323 pp. $34.95. The…
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
Contemporary Christianity has shifted south, and its preponderant weight has gone pear-shaped, which is the gist of…
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Robert Kaplan has spent the past twenty years reporting on local collapses of civilization, chiefly in sub-Saharan…
On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding
No one should be surprised by the recent decision of the New Jersey Department of Education to…
Problems or Puzzles?
The German word for “courage,” Mut , is verbal cousin to the English word “mood.” But unlike…
Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
In recent years, sociologists, historians, and cultural theorists have documented the struggle over the identity of American…
C. S. Lewis Then and Now
Wesley Kort’s C. S. Lewis Then and Now is extraordinarily puzzling. It contains many fresh and valuable…
Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
In the current literature on the connections between science and religion, it is rare to find a…
Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City
History dominates the Israeli“Palestinian conflict. Selective memories on both sides produce partial narratives that deny or obscure…
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The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law. English translation and scholarly apparatus by Edward N. Peters. Ignatius.…
The Mess That Is Marriage
I had occasion recently to ponder the service folder from a wedding. In many respects this wedding…
Frontiers of Legal Theory
Reviewed by Robert T. Miller Judge Richard A. Posner is for many the most brilliant jurist of…
Universalism Redux
In ” Will All Be Saved? ” (Public Square, August/September) Richard John Neuhaus uses an interesting argument…
Stanley Fish’s Milton
How Milton Worksby stanley fishharvard university press, 616 pages, $35. Stanley Fish zooms across the firmament of…
Violence and the Defense of Life
Alas, First Things seems intent on remaining merely a scholarly magazine hovering above the fray on the…
