December 2004
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The Love of Saint Thérèse
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire…
Christopher Lasch and the Limits of Hope
Christopher Lasch’s untimely death in 1994 deprived America of its most loving critic, a man who in…
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 — 12/04
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by michael…
