March 2001

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…
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
In 1996, Robert Kagan and William Kristol published a widely read article in Foreign Affairs advancing the…
Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis
The question Ian Kershaw faces in the second volume of his massive biography is whether Hitler’s life…
Briefly Noted 31
The Spirit of the Liturgy. By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Translated by John Saward. Ignatius. 232 pp. $17.95…
Daemonomania
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
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
In the preface to Crisis of the House Divided , his 1959 work on the Lincoln“Douglas debates…
Poetry
Here lyeth . . . (Sarah?) Drake beneath the floor, a Persian carpet lapped across her stone…