Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning
ARENDT, AUGUSTINE, AND THE NEW BEGINNING by Stephan Kampowski Eerdmans, 364 pages, $50 paper This scholarly study…
Lives and Legacies
Biography, Virginia Woolf once observed, is the search for the fertile fact. The four best biographies of…
Pontius Pilate: The Unjust Judge
As a lawyer and judge, my understanding of the Bible has naturally become colored by my experiences…
Women’s Work
Madwomen:The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral translated by Randall Couch University of Chicago Press, 160 pages,…
Children of Men
Going to see a film based on a novel you’ve read and enjoyed is always problematic. The…
Rocky Is My Prayer Partner
In the sixth installment of the Rocky series¯which opens today¯a fifty-something-year-old Rocky Balboa sits nervously awaiting the…
Looking for Mary in Christmas Carols
It’s Christmas, so we’re singing carols. OK, it’s not Christmas, it’s really Advent, and “carol” has a…
A Mirror Darkly
Arts of Darkness:?American Noir and the Quest for Redemption by Thomas S. Hibbs Spence, 316 pages, $27.95…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
Waking Up to Springtime
It’s a good day to be thinking about the Christian mission, this Day of the Conversion of…
Why Kim Jong-Il Should Fear AntonÃn Dvořák
Now that the New York Philharmonic has accepted the North Korean government’s invitation to perform in Pyongyang…
Death Threats and a Student Assaulted at Princeton
Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their…
Watching The Golden Compass
The book version of The Golden Compass begins with a bang. The movie version with a lecture.…
Mitt Romney on Faith in America
It was a powerful speech powerfully delivered. I don’t do political endorsements but am on record as…
John Paul II and the Jews
More than any other pope, John Paul II was the twentieth century’s greatest papal friend and supporter…
