Arts & Letters

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New Age Mush

Charlotte Allen

Belonging To The Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality by fritjof capra and david…

The Blackboard Bungle

Charles L. Glenn

Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America’s Teachers by rita kramer free press, 228 pages, $22.95 In…

Character and Poverty

Jerry Z. Muller

Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…

Church-State Conundrums

Keith Pavlischek

Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…

The 1960s Revisited

Edward S. Shapiro

The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence…

Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals

Paul V. Mankowski

“When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d…

The Achievement of Jaroslav Pelikan

David W. Lotz

In 1971 the University of Chicago Press published The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600), the first…

The Education Reform Dodge

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work? by Edward B. Fiske Simon & Schuster 303…

The American Battlefield

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter Basic Books, 416 pages, $25 On…

The Pizza Theory

Robert Royal

Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by jeffrey burton russell praeger, 117 pages, $12.95 Revisionist…

“Hotel Room” (Edward Hopper, 1931)

Diane Bonds

No angel with uplifted hand, no symbolof the Holy Spirit, gliding down ongilded beams—and for all we…

Consequences of Columbus

Robert Royal

Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for…

On Viewing the Paintings of Bruno Liljefors

Craig Payne

How good and fine it would have been, to be out upon the wild loon swellsAnd watch…

The One and the Many

Gilbert Meilaender

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by isaiah berlin alfred a. knopf,…

The Personal Niebuhr

William J. Weston

Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr edited by ursula m. niebuhr harpercollins, 432 pages,…