Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Friend, in the Desolate Time
Friend, in the desolate time, when your soul / is enshrouded in darkness / When, in a…
The Population of Hell
Sometimes the complaint is heard that no one preaches about hell any longer. The subject of hell,…
On the Natural History of Destruction
In the summer of 1943, the British Royal Air Force (with support from the Eighth Army Air…
The Life of Pi
Good news came from across the Atlantic late last year. England’s most prestigious literary award”the Booker Prize”had…
The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
In the epilogue to Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley’s The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the…
The Faith of the Founding
My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Walter Berns, has written that the philosophy of John Locke…
American Studies
It is a rare thing for a work of intellectual history to win a Pulitzer Prize. This…
Letters—April 2003
I was impressed by George Weigel’s provocative article, “Moral Clarity in a Time of War” (January), which…
A Court Out of Order
In April 2002 at the United Nations, ten countries simultaneously submitted their ratifications to the “Rome Statute”…
Wild Moralists in the Animal Kingdom
Prejudice gets a very bad press, but one cannot live without it. On numerous questions, we have…
The Sport of Easter
The anonymous alliterative Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the gems…
Poetry(March 2003)
Imagine the way those horses came / plunging and foaming like a race / undammed, and how…
Letters—March 2003
I read with considerable interest Carl E. Olson’s essay on the apocalyptic fever of Tim LaHaye’s vast…
It’s the Theology, Stupid
What went wrong, and when, and why? Father Robert W. Crooker of the University of St. Thomas…
The Persistence of the Catholic Moment
In 1987, while I was still a Lutheran, I published a book titled The Catholic Moment: The…
