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Essays

Lost and Saved on Television

Ross Douthat

There was a time in American life, not so very long ago, when the only significant relation…

Theology After the Revolution

R. R. Reno

Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians: From Chenu to Ratzinger by fergus kerr blackwell, 240 pages, $29.95 Over the last…

Redeeming Flesh

Adam G. Cooper

November 4, 1995. Avenue Niel, Paris. The broken body of an old man lies crumpled on the…

The Much Exaggerated Death of Europe

Richard John Neuhaus

Philip Jenkins begs to differ. But first a word on the discussion that prompts his dissent. Over…

Weird and Wonderful Travels in Evangelicaldom

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square The argument advanced by Zev Chafets—with an engaging mix of urgency, frustration, and humor…

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…

Briefly Noted 180

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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…