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The Virtue of Hate

Meir Y. Soloveichik

In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…

Debating the Human Future

Diana Schaub

human cloning and human dignity: the report of the president’s council on bioethics with a foreward by…

Another Islam

Michael Novak

Beginning in the thirteenth century, the three monotheistic religions parted ways, with the Jewish and Christian world…

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Andrew J. Bacevich

From the perspective of Israel and its (few remaining) friends, the Six Day War was—and remains—both just…

Ireland’s Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation’s Soul

David Quinn

In saying that Marcus Tanner’s Ireland’s Holy Wars is predictable I don’t want to give readers the…

Poetry

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To age is but to respect gravity, movement that is denial given up in the fashion of…

The Passing of R. J. Rushdoony

William Edgar

Rousas John Rushdoony died on February 8 of this year, at the age of eighty“four. He was…

Poetry

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My wife framed a poster decades ago, Take time ”picture of a daddy holding a kid. So…

Thinking Through Vatican II

George Weigel

History of Vatican II: Volume II, The Formation of the Council’s Identity, First Period and Intersession, October…

The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education

Philip Gleason

The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education by d. g. g. hart johns hopkins…

The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times

Jeffrey Burton Russell

The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times edited by carol and…

Poetry

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From fairest creatures we desire increase That being fat they may before they die Have such avoirdupois…

Poetry

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A part of us is always praying for those things the other parts don’t know that they…

Hitler, the War, and the Pope

John Jay Hughes

Hitler, the War, and the Pope by ronald j. rychlak genesis press, 296 pages, $9.35 Amid the…

Technicians of Learning

Edward Tingley

Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…