September 2012
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Defending Religious Liberty
Notre Dame teaches physics and philosophy, and so does the University of Chicago. Both raise money, field…
The Art of Liberty
The following is a response to Patrick J. Deneen’s “Unsustainable Liberalism.” The other response, by Paul J.…
Public Life Without Political Theory
The following is a response to Patrick J. Deneen’s Unsustainable Liberalism. The other response, by Daniel J.…
Unsustainable Liberalism
“Unsustainable Liberalism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on in…
Freedom By Association
In New York City, about one hundred and fifty churches and religious groups—many of them serving poor…
Conscience and Coercion
In the nineteenth century, in encyclicals from Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos in 1832 to Leo XIII’s Libertas…
Letters
Christian Societies “In the long run Christians by culture could hardly exist without some communities of actual…
The Holy Spirit Did Preside
A newly married layman and graduate student, I found myself in Rome in 1963 covering the second…
Through a Gloss, Darkly
In French and English, the Latin verb traducere—“to transfer,” “to convert,” “to lead across,” but also “to…
Cordially, Richard John Neuhaus
September 2004: Richard John Neuhaus was feeling tired and a little glum. This he had not expected,…
Yeshiva Lessons
When the prophet Isaiah spoke to the Jewish people and said, “You yourselves shall be named priests…
Evil Within and Without
Demonic Desires: “Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity by Ishay Rosen-Zvi University of…
Briefly Noted
Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective by Alice M. Ramos Catholic University of…
Paradoxical Francis
Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P. Cornell, 312 pages, $29.95 One of the…
Soulful Houellebecq
The Map and the Territory by michel houellebecq, translated by gavin bowd knopf, 269 pages, $26.95 Man…
Boys Wanna Fight
A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present by Robert Muchembled…
Home Not Alone
The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine S.…
Three Riddles by Saint Aldhelm
63 When bloody flooding killed the human race And brand-new oceans put man in his place, Except…
Memory of the Li River
Sand and gravel lie still on the bed of the river. Peaks like spear-points pierce the clouds…
The Flimflam Theater
When I was a boy I had a friend named Dennis McCann Who was totally and utterly…
