Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Common Sense and Common Law
Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism.by James R. Stoner, Jr.University Press of Kansas. 208 pp. $29.95. For most…
Letters—February 2004
The Church and the Holocaust To the extent that it is read by Catholic apologists and others…
Immigration and the Common Culture
Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of…
Baptizing Middle-Earth
J R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, “Being a cult figure in one’s own lifetime I am…
Seekers and Finders
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus &…
The Reality of the Beautiful
Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue Yale University Press. 209 pp. $24.95 Several days after the massacre…
The Limits of Theory
Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications by Daniel N. Robinson Princeton University Press Praise and…
Too Much Democracy?
The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby fareed zakariaw.w. norton, 286 pp, $26.95 Since ancient…
Letters—Aug/Sept 2003
In “Ordaining Women: Two Views” (April), Sarah Hinlicky Wilson writes that “if the female cannot represent Christ…
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,…
