May 1999
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Nov-16
November 1916 is the second big volume of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s historical epic The Red Wheel, recounting in…
Columbus and the Beginning of the World
As Orson Welles famously remarked, playing the unscrupulous Harry Lime in the film The Third Man: “In…
Southern Baptist Ghosts
During the past twenty years America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has undergone a major…
A Christian University: Defining the Difference
The title of George Marsden’s most recent book on Christian higher education referred to the idea of…
“Saving” the Poor
The poor will always be with us. Yet, pace Cain, we have an obligation to look after…
Christmas in Sudan
I spent last Christmas in Sudan. As readers of this magazine know (see Paul H. Liben, “Murder…
Letter from Moscow
Visitors from the West are often surprised to learn how many historic Catholic churches are scattered about…
The Myth of Declension
Conservatives are still a long way from recovering from their post-impeachment funk. The most dispirited among them…
Who is My Friend?
Friendship in the Classical World by david konstan cambridge university press, 224 pages, $38.12 Among the “first…
Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by john earl haynes and harvey klehr yale university press, 475…
1642 and All That
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America by kevin philips basic, 651…
Briefly Noted 156
Living in the Image of God:Jewish Teachings to Perfect the Worldby irving greenberg with shalom freedmanjason aronson,…
The Archetypes in the Machine
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis harmony, 368 pages, $18.19…
Nature and Law and Gift
Natural Law in Judaism by david novak cambridge university press, 210 pages, $8.97 I At first glance,…
Augustine Then and Now
Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought by eugene teselle university of scraton press, 227…
