Arts & Letters
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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…
“Hotel Room” (Edward Hopper, 1931)
No angel with uplifted hand, no symbolof the Holy Spirit, gliding down ongilded beams—and for all we…
The Pizza Theory
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by jeffrey burton russell praeger, 117 pages, $12.95 Revisionist…
Consequences of Columbus
Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for…
On Viewing the Paintings of Bruno Liljefors
How good and fine it would have been, to be out upon the wild loon swellsAnd watch…
The One and the Many
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by isaiah berlin alfred a. knopf,…
The Personal Niebuhr
Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr edited by ursula m. niebuhr harpercollins, 432 pages,…
Infernal Counsel
Dear Cachexia, Well, isn’t this impressive! You’ve had charge of this patient of yours for just two…
The Neoconservatives
Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era by j. david hoeveler, jr. university of…
Immortal Florence
Dante and Michelangelo You were here; Brunelleschi, Donatello, Savonarola, the Medici, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, Leonardo da Vinci—All left their mark; But none is so…
The Advent of Literary Science
It is now more than thirty years since C. P. Snow’s Cambridge Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures…
At the Concert
There! He’s one of the first onstage! A less disheveled crowd than usual . . . Under…
Art and the Spirit
The expression of art—the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms—is unique to human…
