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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

Various

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…

The Miracle of Evolution

Stephen M. Barr

There are two fundamentally different battles raging in the current debates about evolution. The first pits nearly…

The Designs of Science

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

In July 2005 the New York Times published my short essay “Finding Design in Nature.” The reaction…

The Posthuman Future

Richard John Neuhaus

The term “posthuman” is gaining a certain cachet. There is, for instance, Francis Fukuyama’s recent book, Our…

Keeping Rogue Science Rogue

Richard John Neuhaus

There has been a lot of tongue-biting by pro-lifers in connection with the most recent report of…