May 1999
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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.University Press. 2206 pp. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Among the “first…
Old Ghosts
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr.Yale University Press. 475 pp. $30.…
1642 and All That
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America.By Kevin Philips.Basic. 651.pp. $32. Perceptive…
Briefly Noted 156
Living in the Image of God: Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World. By Irving Greenberg with Shalom…
The Archetypes in the Machine
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis. harmony. 368 pp. $25.…
Nature and Law and Gift
Natural Law in Judaism. by David Novak. Cambridge University Press. 210 pp $54.95. I At first…
Augustine Then and Now
Living in Two Cities: Augustinian Trajectories in Political Thought.By Eugene TeSelle.University of Scraton Press. 227 pp. $19.95…
