Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Marriage Is—And What It Isn’t
Everyone agrees that marriage, whatever else it is or does, is a relationship in which persons are…
The Beginning of Wisdom
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $29.50 Near the end of…
The Face of Civilization
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart Yale, 249 pages, $28…
Briefly Noted — 08/09
Helen Barrett Montgomery: The Global Mission of Domestic Feminism by kendal p. mobley baylor, 420 pages, $39.95…
The Social Gospel of Charles Dickens
“I hold my imaginative capacity,” Charles Dickens once wrote, “on the stern condition that it must master…
A Master of Horror
In his Poetics , Aristotle observed that some works of art have a paradoxical effect. They represent…
Cold War Religion
Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945“1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368…
Sanctifying Islam
The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective by Gregory Baum University of Notre Dame Press, 178…
A Tale of Two Cities
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark Doubleday, 354 pages, $26…
Time Management
Luther in the year he spent / as Junker Joerg in Wartburg towers, / translated the New…
Slouching Towards Pelosi
The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960by shaun a. caseyoxford university, 261 pages, $27.95…
Briefly Noted 229
Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation by Stephen J. Nichols Brazos,…
After Sappho
Hesperus, you reunite / What dawn divides from one another...
Good Grief
You said it, Charlie Brown. / Though all we get is grief, / They only knock us…
Letters—March 2009
Stem Cells Sell In “Stem Cells: A Political History” (November 2008), Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson…
