June/July 2005
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June/July Letters
The Science of the Mind It was good to read Paul C. Vitz’s article about “psychology in…
Crusaders and Historians
The Crusades have been a topic of intense scholarly investigation for the last forty years. Some of…
The Pattern of Christian Truth
The “integration of faith and learning” makes for a nice mantra. You can find it in attractive…
The New Fusionism
Social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, libertarians, agrarians, communitarians, foreign-policy hawks”who can figure them out? Neocons and theocons and…
Mere Apologetics
CS. Lewis was a man of many parts. His novels, allegories, and children’s books achieved enormous popularity.…
An Unworkable Theology
It is increasingly difficult to escape the fact that mainline Protestantism is in a state of disintegration.…
A Label that Sticks
When I was in high school, the students fell into many different groups: preps, jocks, cheerleaders, punks,…
Sex or Gender?
Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads Encounter. 362 pp. $17.95 When Steven Rhoads published Taking…
Why We Work
Just Work by Russell Muirhead Harvard University Press, 224 pp. $24.95 That work is essential to human…
Briefly Noted 11
Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. By Wesley J. Smith. Encounter. 219 pp. $25.95. The Brave…
Unreasonable Observers
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life by James Hitchcock Princeton University Press Vol. I: The…
Offer Declined
The Future of Religion by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 112 pp. $24.50 The…
Kierkegaard’s Voices
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by joakim garff translated by bruce h. kirmmse princeton university press, 867 pages,…
While We’re At It
• It was far from the most important development as the Terri Schiavo case seized the nation’s…
Our Culture, Counterculturally Speaking
Paula Fredriksen of Boston University is concerned with “the moral complexity of our civilization,” which is a…
The Polite Gentiles
Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition airs a question that I expect most Jews think should be…
The Tyranny of the Minority
“There is strength in numbers, but there is not truth.” Leon Wieseltier is right about that. Writing…
Rome Diary
April 11: Remembering John Paul II There, on the catafalque only a few feet away, was what…
Parable of the Birds
They might be swallows. Barely to be seen, they come through what the combine left behind, dispersed,…
A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?
The term “Judeo-Christian” has entered our civic vocabulary for good reason. On many of the deepest issues…
