December 2004

The Politics of Gratitude
Coriolanus is far from being the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, but many of us remember the…
Embryology: Inconvenient Facts
In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to…
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
During the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius in the middle of the second century, an unnamed…
The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review
The Constitution of the United States of America is a majestic old document, but in our age…
John Wesley: A Biography
John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism, proves to be a biographer’s dream come true. The man…
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Tony Hendra’s Father Joe was given a front page review in the New York Times Book Review…
Briefly Noted 68
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War. By Michael…