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Opinion

May Letters

Various

What Wright Got Right Edward T. Oakes’ review of Simply Christian by N.T. Wright (January) was, in…

Saving India’s Girls

Ashley K. Fernandes

India is all the rage these days. From high fashion to high tech to the movies made…

Immigration: Citizens & Strangers

Peter C. Meilaender

Discussions of immigration often oversimplify or distort the moral issues at stake. Contemporary liberalism promotes the twin…

As the Family Goes

W. Bradford Wilcox

The family revolution of the last four decades has not been kind to American religion. Dramatic declines…

Reviews

Free to Believe

Richard W. Garnett

Religious Freedom and the Constitution by Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager Harvard University Press, 352…

Language, Truth, and Murder

John Wilson

The Right Attitude to Rain by alexander mccall smith pantheon, 288 pages, $21.95 Hard to believe that,…

Neo-Neo-Thomism

O.P. Romanus Cessario

Praeambula Fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers by Ralph McInerny The Catholic University of America…

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Edward B. Davis

God’s Universe by Owen Gingerich Belknap Press, 160 pages, $16.95 When Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of…

Briefly Noted 180

Various

The Road by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 241 pages, $24 A father and son trudge through the burned-over…

Poetry

Cornflowers

Mary Enda Hughes S.S.N.D.

I give you for consideration the reason why cornflowers defy the certainty of asphalt. Impediments to progress…

Disoriented

Daniel Haar

Tracking a decline, I strayed from the trail traced by my ancestral line. I found the land’s…