Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
Night falling early
Night falling early: silver in the duff, / frosty small change, and in our maple, crows, /…
Letters—November 2002
J. Budziszewski’s article “The Second Tablet Project” (June/July) is the clearest, most cogent brief examination I have…
Teachers’ Guilt
In the middle of the fall semester, I find myself thinking back to the end of another…
Drowned Lover
Dearest enemy, so often unkind, / my life was in your hands, until that wave / of…
Briefly Noted 45
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society . By David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago…
