Science & Technology

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The Mailbox

Greg Alan Brownderville

This white-dust road is in for an evil storm today. The wind seems up to something by…

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Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger by michael s. rose spence, 182 pages, $22.95 The author…

Religion and Politics Debate

Anthony Sacramone

On Saturday, November 10, at Gotham Hall in New York City, The Economist magazine will sponsor a…

The Politics of Bioethics

Richard John Neuhaus

Is “human dignity” a useful concept in bioethics? Does it shed important light on the whole range…

The Ten Commandments of … What?

Robert T. Miller

I present to you a document of some forty pages entitled ” Guidelines for the Pastoral Care…

America’s Greatest Mystery Writer

Joseph Bottum

G.K. Chesterton’s Fr. Brown stories are proof that only the British style of detective fiction can reach…

Fallout

Joseph Bottum

We will, I imagine, be talking about the Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart for a…

Briefly Noted — 02/07

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American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short by robert wuthnow princeton…

Bottum: Who to Reread in 2007

Joseph Bottum

It’s weeks into 2007 already, and I don’t really know what I’m going to read this year.…

RJN: MLK Today

Richard John Neuhaus

Diverse ways of thinking about Martin Luther King Jr. and the ways in which his day is…

RJN: A Doubtful Neophiliac

Richard John Neuhaus

Mark C. Taylor of Williams College is among the most nimble of nimble minds perched on the…

JB: A Christmas Carol Revisited

Joseph Bottum

Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years.…

Reno: Benedict XVI and Islam

R. R. Reno

Whether or not one agrees with the pope’s historical analysis of de-Hellenization, he is surely right about…

“The Incredibles,” “The Science of Sleep”

Frederica Mathewes-Green

“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…

The Mad Scientists’ Club

Joseph Bottum

The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…