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Essays

How to Limit Government

R. R. Reno

How to Limit Government n The United States is no more likely to become Europe than China…

T. F. Torrance and the Latin Heresy

Douglas Farrow

Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted…

Evangelical Retreat?

Russell D. Moore

Growing up in a Southern Baptist church in the 1970s and ’80s, I heard quite a bit…

History’s Most Powerful Rabbi

Yehudah Mirsky

On October 7, some eight hundred thousand people, about 10 percent of Israel’s population and roughly 13…

The Catholic Writer Today

Dana Gioia

Opinion

Letters

Various

Work–Life Imbalance n I agree with Elizabeth Corey (“No Happy Harmony,” October) that there will always be…

The Naked College Quad

Owen Strachan

Gray and magisterial, squarely planted in the heart of campus, Bowdoin’s chapel keeps watch over all who…

These Fragments Have I Shored

David Bentley Hart

Some years ago, when I was teaching in a respected department in a prestigious university in one…

Jesus the Muslim Hippie

Gabriel Said Reynolds

Many Christians and other non-Muslims who want to understand the Christ of Islam turn to the Qur’an,…

Reviews

Democracy’s Revenge

Daniel Johnson

A Short History of the Twentieth Century by john lucacs harvard, 240 pages, $24.95 n In the…

Diapers and Diplomas

Sarah Klitenic Wear

Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by mary ann mason, nicholas h. wolfinger,…

Love’s Scandal

Shalom Carmy

God’s Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People by jerome…

Time’s on Our Side

Matthew W. Maguire

The Illusion of History: Time and the Radical Political Imagination by andrew r. russ catholic university of…

Briefly Noted

Various

Contemplative Provocations: Brief, Concentrated Observations on Aspects of a Life with God by fr. donald haggerty ignatius,…

Poetry

Prayer

Kevin Hart

It’s not too late, Dark One,       For you to come       And have me close And stay an…

Listening to Timkat

Daniel Luttrull

I follow her story only in part, like a man looking from a lit room at dark…