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Essays

Not Your Father’s Pornography

Jason Byassee

Back in college, before he was a successful lawyer and practicing Catholic, a friend of mine was…

Law and Moral Purpose

Robert P. George

The obligations and purposes of law and government are to protect public health, safety, and morals, and…

Nietzsche’s Deeper Truth

R. R. Reno

At the outset of On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche reports that his polemical book of…

Catholic Scholars, Secular Schools

Robert Louis Wilken

At Fordham University, while I was teaching there in the late 1960s, it was said that most…

Religion and Politics: “The Great Separation”

Richard John Neuhaus

Religion and Politics: “The Great Separation” I approached Mark Lilla’s new book with considerable interest and with…

Opinion

January Letters

Various

As Justice Kennedy Said …

Stephen G. Gilles

When Samuel Alito replaced Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court in 2006, observers predicted that Anthony…

Reviews

Altering the Psalms

Gary A. Anderson

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by robert alter w.w. norton, 560 pages, $35 The…

An Unbooming Business

Christian Smith

After the Baby Boomers:How Twenty- and Thirty-­Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion by robert wuthnow…

Lawless Ends

Robert T. Miller

Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law by brian z. tamanaha…

The Poetry of Paradise

David Yezzi

Paradiso by dante alighieri translated by robert and jean hollander doubleday, 944 pages, $40 With the publication…

Poetry

Archimedes Quatrain

Amit Majmudar

Jerusalem, fulcrum of our uplift, Is not this rough plank the Cross, laid aslant Golgotha, The lever…

Prayer for Jamaica

Alan Sullivan

Lord of the storm, spare Kingston’s unkempt port, spare Spanish Town and even Montego Bay. Open your…