June/July 2006

Principled Immigration
Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…
An Almost-Chosen People
When Abraham Lincoln called Americans “the almost chosen people,” he used an apt phrase, as valid now…
The Churches of Earthly Power
Michael Burleigh’s study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than…
Islam and Us
Can Islam and the Western democracies live together peacefully? Optimists seize on the assurance of specialists that…
Misplacing Children
Attempting social engineering at gun-point, the State of Massachusetts recently ordered the Catholic Church to place adoptive…
Jews and the World to Come
n 2004, on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” correspondent Nina Totenberg declared, “Jews do not believe in…
Unchurching
Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperSanFrancisco. 224 pp. $23.95. There are really two books here. One…
Jarring Sects
A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion by Pamela Winnick. Nelson Current. 368 pp. $25.99. Is science…
Faust in the USSR
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin. Putnam. 354 pp. $24.95. Olga Grushin, a young Russian-born…
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto by simon youngprometheus, 417 pages, $28 The Singularity is Near: When Humans…
A Christian People
A People’s History of Christianity: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Denis Janz, Richard A. Horsley, and…
Briefly Noted 84
A Short History of Thomism. by Romanus Cessario. Catholic University, 106 pages, $19.95. There are Thomists, and…