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Of Time and the River

Various

Of Time and the River I love the way the river rollicks here, and how it sluices…

American Judaism: A History

Alan L. Mittleman

This year marks the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America. In 1654, twenty-three Jews arrived…

Letters—April 2004

Various

I noted with interest Edward T. Oakes’ review of Luther (“Luther, the Movie,” January). His remarks about…

Editorial Secrets Revealed

Richard John Neuhaus

Paul Johnson says an important part of it in his introduction to The Norman Podhoretz Reader (Free…

Briefly Noted 19

Various

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. By Michael McGerr.…

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Various

“We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. By David Herbert Donald. Simon & Schuster. 269…

Alone in the Academy

Eric Miller

I was starting the second year of a Ph.D. program in U.S. history at the University of…

Common Sense and Common Law

Robert F. Nagel

Common-Law Liberty:  Rethinking American Constitutionalism.by James R. Stoner, Jr.University Press of Kansas.  208 pp. $29.95. For most…

Letters—February 2004

Various

The Church and the Holocaust To the extent that it is read by Catholic apologists and others…

Immigration and the Common Culture

Peter C. Meilaender

Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of…

Baptizing Middle-Earth

Anna Mathie

J R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, “Being a cult figure in one’s own lifetime I am…

Seekers and Finders

Wilfred M. McClay

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus &…

The Reality of the Beautiful

Edward T. Oakes

Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue Yale University Press. 209 pp. $24.95 Several days after the massacre…

The Limits of Theory

R. R. Reno

Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications by Daniel N. Robinson Princeton University Press Praise and…

Too Much Democracy?

William Ruger

The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby fareed zakariaw.w. norton, 286 pp, $26.95 Since ancient…