Arts & Letters
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The Feminist as Paranoid
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…
Back to Our Future
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century…
Briefly Noted 204
Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil by Hyam Maccoby Free Press, 213 pages, $22.95 Maccoby…
New Age Mush
Belonging To The Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality by fritjof capra and david…
The Blackboard Bungle
Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America’s Teachers by rita kramer free press, 228 pages, $22.95 In…
Character and Poverty
Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…
Church-State Conundrums
Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…
The 1960s Revisited
The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence…
Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals
“When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d…
The Achievement of Jaroslav Pelikan
In 1971 the University of Chicago Press published The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600), the first…
The Education Reform Dodge
Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work? by Edward B. Fiske Simon & Schuster 303…
The American Battlefield
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter Basic Books, 416 pages, $25 On…
The Pizza Theory
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by jeffrey burton russell praeger, 117 pages, $12.95 Revisionist…
“Hotel Room” (Edward Hopper, 1931)
No angel with uplifted hand, no symbolof the Holy Spirit, gliding down ongilded beams—and for all we…
Consequences of Columbus
Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for…
