Theology

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Spending the Future

Peter Thiel

The Legitimacy of ­Philanthropic Foundations: United States and European Perspectives edited by kenneth prewitt et al. russell…

On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran’s COLLECTED WORKS

Alan Jacobs

I Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran, And weary grows the mind doomed…

Briefly Noted 209

Various

The Physics of Christianity by frank j. tipler doubleday, 320 pages, $27.50  People who do research in…

Our Dip in the Rift Valley

Les Murray

We never heard what my mate heard descending to the Dead Sea by bus: a jet fighter…

November Letters

Various

Living Religious Lives Permit me to add my own experience in support of “The Life and Death…

Conscience and Authority

Gilbert Meilaender

Nothing is more common in life than a seeming tension between the freedom of individuals and the…

The Next President

Nat Hentoff, John J. DiIulio Jr., and Joseph Bottum

Nat Hentoff From the beginning, so very long ago, of the 2008 presidential campaign, many of the…

As Long As They Spell Our Names Right

Richard John Neuhaus

As Long As They Spell Our Names Right We are incessantly told that we live in a…

A Decidedly Unsappy Bella

Amanda Shaw

Chick flicks are the caramel-lattés of romantic comedy¯sweet and frothy, without much nutritional value. Chick flicks reheat…

That Evangelical Crackup

Richard John Neuhaus

All Souls Day, November 2, is for the ordinary folk. The “faithful departed” means all our brothers…

Woe to Those Who Call Evil Good

Joseph Naumann

Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to serving the poorest of the poor, said on more than…

Purpose: Biological, Biblical, or Both?

Edward T. Oakes

In one of his early books, Untimely Meditations , Friedrich Nietzsche spins a tale that, in paraphrase,…

An Alien Grace

John D. Martin

Dr. Who , television’s longest-running science fiction show, has returned to planet Earth after battling near extinction.…

Life, the University, and Everything

Amanda Shaw

There are questions so big they’re almost laughable. What is the meaning of life? for instance. We’ve…