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Essays

Critical Realignments

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square In this space I recently paid tribute to the late Francis Schaeffer, noting, among…

The Irony of American Power

Andrew J. Bacevich

I The overarching theme of twentieth-century geopolitics has been America’s success in prevailing over its competitors for…

The Blind Programmer

Edward T. Oakes

How the Mind Works . By Steven Pinker. Norton. 660 pages, $29.95. The MIT linguist Noam Chomsky…

The Ways We Worship

Avery Cardinal Dulles

One weekend in that tumultuous year 1968 I was on call at a parish church outside of…

Opinion

The Jogger’s Wave

Preston Jones

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased,” says the author of the Book…

The Music of “Having Church”

Michael Linton

“Outrage!” “Shocking insensitivity!” “Boycott!” Art, in recent years, has raised any number of protests, but this time…

The Second Time as Farce: Galileo Redux

Jonathan Carson

According to Bob Fletcher, a “full-time militia staff researcher,” the government of the United States “has developed…

Passing in Review

James Nuechterlein

In this month’s While We’re At It, RJN makes passing reference to Christopher Caldwell’s astute article in…

The Neo-Augustinian Temptation

Robert Benne

There is a rising strand of Christian social thought inspired by a fresh reading of Augustine’s City…

Reviews

What We Are and What We Ought To Be

Mark R. Talbot

The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God’s Assistance By John E. Hare Oxford University Press.…

Beyond Supersessionism

David Novak

The God of Israel and Christian Theology By R. Kendall Soulen Fortress, 195 pp. $19 paper. This…

Briefly Noted 144

Various

A Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval. By Paul R. Amato and…

Apologetics Without Apologies

Laura L. Garcia

Is There God? By Richard Swinburne Oxford University Press 144 pp. $25 Apologetics is experiencing a small…

Tu Quoque

Paul J. Griffiths

Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia By Russell T. McCutcheon…

Church and Academy

James Tunstead Burtchaell

Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition: Contemporary Challenges Edited by Patrick W. Carey and Earl C. Muller…

Poetry

Psalm 144

Laurance Wieder

My fingers twang the bowstring. Arrows flying from the tower Land whole armies at my feet. What…

The Waltz We Were Born For

Walt McDonald

Wind chimes ping and tangle on the patio. In gusty winds this wild, sparrow hawks hover and…

Odin’s Eye

David Hartman

Odin didn’t have to give it up, you know; didn’t have to pluck out that Nordic orb,…