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Letters

March Letters 178

Various

The Founders & Individualism As a fellow law professor and Catholic, I agree with many of the…

Responses to Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy

Various

Essays

Faith and Quantum Theory

Stephen M. Barr

Quantum theory is unsettling. Nobel laureate Richard Feynman admitted that it “appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone—both…

The Leadership of George W. Bush: Con & Pro

Joseph Bottum / Michael Novak

Joseph Bottum writes: After six years of President Bush”thought by nearly every observer to be the most…

Metaphysical America

Richard John Neuhaus

A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion by catherine l. albanese…

Le Danse Macabre

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Body Worlds is an “educational” exhibition that has been touring major U.S. cities the…

Opinion

Render Unto Atatürk

Mustafa Akyol

When thousands of furious Muslims rallied in the streets of the West Bank, Pakistan, and Indonesia to…

Who Is Harry Sylvester?

Philip Jenkins

If the Ministry of Truth had devoted their full attention to obliterating the memory of Harry Sylvester,…

Reviews

Bach to the Future

Michael Linton

Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work by martin geck harcourt, 752 pages, $40 The collected works of Johann…

Literature in the Ruins

Bryan Crockett

Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures, by Francesco…

The Nature of America

Peter J. Leithart

From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority , by Roger Lundin, Rowman & Littlefield,…

The Feeling Intellect

John Rose

Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher, by William Taussig Scott and Martin X. Moleski, S.J., Oxford University Press,…

Briefly Noted 178

Various

Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith , by Jacob Howland, Cambridge University Press, 246…

Poetry

Letrillos

St. John of the Cross Rhina P. Espaillat

Nativity With God’s Word-the burgeon that swells in her womb” now she comes, the Virgin: if you…

The Youthful Shepherd

St. John of the Cross Rhina P. Espaillat

A youthful shepherd, wandering and feeling far from his heart’s content, goes sad and lonely, his thoughts…