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Letters

Man and Machine

Various

Man and Machine William A. Dembski’s “Are We Spiritual Machines?” (October 1999) challenges the spiritualistic materialism of…

Essays

What’s News?

Richard John Neuhaus

Some years ago, in October 1991, we published C. John Sommerville’s “How the News Makes Us Dumb,”…

Opinion

American Dreaming

James Nuechterlein

Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else. The most obvious…

Reviews

Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

William D. Rubinstein

Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell Viking, 430 pages, $29.95.   As Pius…

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man

Marjorie Rosenberg

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by william morrow harper perennial, 662 pages, $27.50 Seeking to create,…

The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War

Gregory Wolfe

The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War by hilton…

Briefly Noted

Various

Crisis of Conscience edited by john m. haas crossroad, 173 pages, $15.95 This collection of essays represents the fruit…

Saint Augustine

John Peter Kenney

Saint Augustine by garry wills penguin books, 152 pages, $19.95 Augustinophobia, the fear and loathing of Augustine, is…

Dragon in a Three Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China

William McGurn

Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China by doug guthrie princeton university press,…

Harry Potter’s Magic

Alan Jacobs

By now most readers in this country are aware of what has come to be called the…