Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters—January 2019
Muslim Progressives Paul Rowan Brian (“Muslims in American Politics,” November) has deftly laid bare the source of…
Fear Today
More than any other philosopher, Thomas Hobbes highlighted the claim that fear serves as a foundation for…
Wonder Is Critical
I finished teaching a university course in faith and ideas a little while ago by administering individual…
Lincoln Lost, Douglas Won
Everyone on that hot, dusty August afternoon in 1858 in the square at Ottawa, Illinois, knew who…
Let’s Rebalance
On election night, Tuesday, November 6, returns came in. There were wins and losses. My blood pressure…
Conservative Democracy
The present moment is one of growing discomfort, both in America and in Europe, with the regnant…
Shame Storm
After a lifetime of impeccably correct opinions, Ian Buruma found himself on the wrong side of the…
Bishops Unbound
In Before Church and State, Andrew Willard Jones describes a time when Christendom’s lay rulers were leaders…
Grace
. . . for he will come like a rushing streamwhich the wind of the Lord drives.—Isa.…
The Winter of Love
No one who welcomed the sixties as a liberation can understand what it has been like to…
Progress and Punishment
Modern spokesmen for traditional Judaism have consistently expressed reservations about capital punishment. While the biblical texts seem…
Russian Jeremiah
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Notre Dame, 480 pages, $35…
Spark’s Chance Grace
Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Sparkby alan taylorpolygon, 244 pages, $18.95 Muriel Spark Centenary Editionsby…
Undoing the Demos
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalismby quinn slobodianharvard, 400 pages, $35 On April…
Wasted Time
You’d think that after New Year’s boozy kisses,Back-slapping, and effusions in confetti,The last hors-d’oeuvres and passes at…
