March 2001
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Peter and Mary Together
In “Evangelicals in the Church of Mary” (December 2000), Daniel P. Moloney addresses the problems involved when…
As the New Millennium Begins
The Public Square At the conclusion of the Year of the Great Jubilee, John Paul II issued…
Clio’s Makeshift Laboratory
The discipline of history is the science of incommensurable things and unrepeatable events. Which is to say,…
Icons and Kitsch
The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm By Alain Besançon Translated by Jean Marie Todd University…
The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium
In the February issue First Things published the Erasmus Lecture of 2000, “Papacy and Power,” by George…
The Politics of Incivility
It was perhaps the most unusual statement in a political year full of surprises. Stockwell Day, new…
It Ain’t Got That Swing
In 1987 President Reagan invited Miles Davis to a formal dinner at the White House. He went,…
Ecumenical Conundrum
Ecumenism”or at least ecumenism rightly understood (definition supplied below)”is not an optional matter for Christians. It is…
Educating for Marriage, Sort Of
In the past ten years a promising trend has taken hold. Divorce rates have leveled off, premarital…
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy edited by robert kagan and william…
Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis
Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis by ian kershaw w. w. norton, 1168 pages, $40.10 The question Ian Kershaw faces…
Briefly Noted 31
The Spirit of the Liturgyby joseph cardinal ratzingertranslated by john saward, ignatius, 232 pages, $23.77 The Church…
Daemonomania
Daemonomania by john crowley bantam, 464 pages, $30 This book is the third of the projected four…
A Bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth–Century Flanders
A Bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders by craig harline and eddy put…
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by harry v.…
Poetry
Here lyeth . . . (Sarah?) Drake beneath the floor, a Persian carpet lapped across her stone…
