May 2007

May Letters
What Wright Got Right Edward T. Oakes’ review of Simply Christian by N.T. Wright (January) was, in…
Saving India’s Girls
India is all the rage these days. From high fashion to high tech to the movies made…
Immigration: Citizens & Strangers
Discussions of immigration often oversimplify or distort the moral issues at stake. Contemporary liberalism promotes the twin…
As the Family Goes
The family revolution of the last four decades has not been kind to American religion. Dramatic declines…
Free to Believe
Religious Freedom and the Constitution by Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager Harvard University Press, 352…
Language, Truth, and Murder
The Right Attitude to Rain by alexander mccall smith pantheon, 288 pages, $21.95 Hard to believe that,…
Neo-Neo-Thomism
Praeambula Fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers by Ralph McInerny The Catholic University of America…
All Things Bright and Beautiful
God’s Universe by Owen Gingerich Belknap Press, 160 pages, $16.95 When Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of…
Briefly Noted 180
The Road by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 241 pages, $24 A father and son trudge through the burned-over…
Cornflowers
I give you for consideration the reason why cornflowers defy the certainty of asphalt. Impediments to progress…
Disoriented
Tracking a decline, I strayed from the trail traced by my ancestral line. I found the land’s…