Arts & Letters

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The New Liberal Racism

Glenn C. Loury

Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal by andrew hacker scribner’s, 272 pages, $24.95 The…

The Banality of Sin

Jacob Neusner

The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Nature by solomon schimmel free press,…

The Moral Fragility of Constitutionalism

Robert P. George

America’s Constitutional Soul by harvey c. mansfield, jr. johns hopkins university press, 236 pages, $32 In this…

Why Universities Went Secular

Paul V. Mankowski

The Secularization of the Academy edited by george m. marsden and bradley j. longfield oxford university press,…

Divorce, Communitarian Style

Mark C. Henrie

On Divorce by louis de bonald translated and with an introduction by nicholas davidson transaction press, 198…

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Theology and Dialogue edited by bruce d. marshall university of notre dame press, 302 pages, $14.95 paper…

Scripture for the Gender-Correct

Charlotte Allen

The Women’s Bible Commentary edited by carol a. newsom and sharon h. ringe westminster/john knox press, 396…

The Limits of Populism

Robert Benne

Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality by jeffrey bell regnery gateway, 202 pages, $21.95…

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Evangelical

Jill P. Baumgaertner

Portofino by frank schaeffer macmillan, 256 pages, $18 Frank Schaeffer’s latest book, a novel, provides many signs that…

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The Founders of the Western World:A History of Greece and Romeby michael grantscribner’s, 351 pages, $27.50 Michael…

Friendship and Its Discontents

Alan Jacobs

The Norton Book of Friendship edited by Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharr Norton, 622 pages, $25…

The Unfathomable Mystery of Autism

Molly Finn

There’s a Boy In Here: A Mother and Her Son Tell the Story of His Emergence from…

The Death of the Goddess

Jon D. Levenson

In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by tikva…

The Cultural Middle Ground

John P. Sisk

The Making Of Middlebrow Culture by joan shelley rubin university of north carolina press, 416 pages, $34.95…

The New Class Reconsidered

Alan Wolfe

Hidden Technocrats: The New Class and the New Capitalism edited by hansfried kellner and frank w. heuberger…