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Letters

Peter and Mary Together

Various

In “Evangelicals in the Church of Mary” (December 2000), Daniel P. Moloney addresses the problems involved when…

Essays

As the New Millennium Begins

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square At the conclusion of the Year of the Great Jubilee, John Paul II issued…

Opinion

The Politics of Incivility

Raymond J. de Souza

It was perhaps the most unusual statement in a political year full of surprises. Stockwell Day, new…

It Ain’t Got That Swing

Hugh Liebert

In 1987 President Reagan invited Miles Davis to a formal dinner at the White House. He went,…

Ecumenical Conundrum

James Nuechterlein

Ecumenism”or at least ecumenism rightly understood (definition supplied below)”is not an optional matter for Christians. It is…

Educating for Marriage, Sort Of

Dana Mack

In the past ten years a promising trend has taken hold. Divorce rates have leveled off, premarital…

Reviews

Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy

Andrew J. Bacevich

In 1996, Robert Kagan and William Kristol published a widely read article in Foreign Affairs advancing the…

Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis

Walter Sundberg

The question Ian Kershaw faces in the second volume of his massive biography is whether Hitler’s life…

Briefly Noted 31

Various

The Spirit of the Liturgy. By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Translated by John Saward. Ignatius. 232 pp. $17.95…

Daemonomania

John J. Reilly

This book is the third of the projected four in John Crowley’s major novelistic treatment of gnosticism…

A Bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth–Century Flander

Charlotte Allen

Those who think that today’s Catholic Church has problems reining in its errant clergy should read Craig…

A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

George McKenna

In the preface to Crisis of the House Divided , his 1959 work on the Lincoln“Douglas debates…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

Here lyeth . . . (Sarah?) Drake beneath the floor, a Persian carpet lapped across her stone…