June/July 2016
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Punching Down
On January 20, a federal appeals court heard arguments in the highly publicized case of Kimberly Jean…
Kraków’s Geography of Sanctity
In a recent book, The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner sets out on what he calls “a…
Homeless
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump together are likely to end this primary season with a majority of…
Mammon Ascendant
So, there I was, pondering, with an old familiar feeling of perplexity (about which more anon), certain…
Is Liberalism a Heresy?
The only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market-oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law…
Letters
MARQUETTE Mickey Mattox’s piece on Marquette University (“Marquette’s Gender Regime,” April) was welcome indeed. I taught at…
Briefly Noted
Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movementby sue ellen browder ignatius, 232 pages,…
Mother Teresa’s Worlds
Since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Mother Teresa has been a global symbol of mercy…
A Loss of Trust
The ordeal is over; my niece has chosen Tulane. A buddy in Wisconsin has a daughter, and…
Mormons at the Forefront
Many would like to domesticate Mormon strangeness, what Richard Mouw recently called in these pages its “ill-considered…
Sing Him Back Home
The day Merle Haggard died, I found myself talking to a friend who has served as a…
Ghost of a Rose
Sir Thomas Browne: A Lifeby reid barbouroxford, 552 pages, $125 Thomas Browneedited by kevin killeenoxford, 1,018 pages,…
Angelic Stubbornness
God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faithby robert cardinal sarahinterviewed by nicolas diatignatius, 285 pages, $17.95 On…
Conversing with Ether
The Givenness of Things: Essaysby marilynne robinsonfarrar, straus and giroux, 304 pages, $26 Why is it that…
The Secular Prison
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Reportby saba mahmoodprinceton, 248 pages, $24.95 While I was…
The Odd Command
My loved one sleeps and softly just respires,A strange and intricate consort of cells.Each does exactly what…
Experimental Design
This tangle of Drosophila, these flieslow-orbiting your wineglass and my peachniggle a question: whether meaning liesonly in…
Sides of Pride
Trouble lies in feeling proud.I was taught that it’s a sinand that I shouldn’t share aloud some…
Gehenna
Where Moloch relished children sacrificedOutside Jerusalem, where worms won’t die. Am I a fool to claim the…
