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Opinion

A Dedicated Life

Gilbert Meilaender

Gilbert Meilaender writes a letter to his old friend Stanley Hauerwas . Dear Stan, I read your…

Correspondence

Various

The Heat Is On I’d like to add a point to William Anderson’s “Some Like It Warm”…

Quantum Leaps

David P. Goldman

George Gilder’s enthusiasm has always been infectious. In his recent book it is feverish. His 1981 bestseller…

Believe It or Not

David Bentley Hart

I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a…

Essays

Truths Still Held?

George Weigel

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of John Courtney Murray’s We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on…

Bitter Pill

Timothy Reichert

Introduction Economists and other social scientists have written extensively about the impact that contraception has had on…

God and Mrs. Roosevelt

Mary Ann Glendon

In her 1958 autobiography, Eleanor Roosevelt described an occasion in the early days of the U.N. Human…

A King in Israel

Michael Wyschogrod

Israel is a Jewish state but has not succeeded in defining just what that means in a…

Reviews

Review of With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party

Maria Andraca Carano

With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: In Company with Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others by…

The Christian Difference

Robert Louis Wilken

Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity By Luke Timothy Johnson Yale, 461 pages, $32.50 n It…

Review of Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide

Ryan T. Anderson

Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide by Edward Feser Oneworld Publications, 224 pages, $14.95 n Do not let the…

Review of Breakwater

Len Krisak

Breakwater by Catharine Savage Brosman Mercer University Press, 112 pages, $30 n If classical meter really did…

Review of Can God Be Trusted?

Brian A. Graebe

Can God Be Trusted? Finding Faith in Troubled Times by Thomas D. Williams FaithWords, 224 pages, $19.99…

Review of Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr.

Gregory J. Sullivan

Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr. edited by William F. Meehan III University Press of Mississippi, 208…

Review of Fly Fishing with Darth Vader

David Blum

Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures With Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys by…

Devotion and Sensibility

Gil Student

Judaism: A Way of Being by David Gelernter Yale, 248 pages, $26 n The gateway to a…

Review of The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture

Francis Beckwith

The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture by Scott Klusendorf Crossway Books, 256 pages,…

Review of The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate

Russell E. Saltzman

The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate by Adam Frank University of California Press, 304…

Pacifying Violence

Brad S. Gregory

The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict by William T. Cavanaugh…

Review of The Sabbath World

David P. Goldman

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz Random House, 246 pages,…

Review of What is Truth?

Paige Hochschild

What is Truth? From the Academy to the Vatican by John M. Rist Cambridge University Press, 376…

O Homer, Where Art Thou?

Katherine Eastland

The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel by zachary mason farrar, straus & giroux 240 pages,…

Poetry

I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity

Anna Akhmatova

I’ve learned to live in wise simplicity, To look into the heavens and to pray, And wear…

For Lucia, on Her Confirmation

Glenn C. Arbery

In Houston once, the candles running out Before we got to Easter Vigil (late), I held you…

On The Birds

Kim Bridgford

Is love like this? A trap, a whirring thing That hunts you down by beak, and flock,…

In a Church in Venice

Daniel Brown

Its marble floor includes a graven granite slab: Monteverdi’s. I mention this not to tell you he’s…