May 2015

Success Is Not Dignity
Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam is worried about America. He should be. As Charles Murray put it in…
Sex and Danger at UVA
This past November, Rolling Stone magazine published an article that told the story of a gang rape…
Lessons in Statecraft
When the Catholic Church celebrated the canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII on…
The Great Interpreter
The single most important event of constitutional interpretation in American history was the Civil War. The war…
Solzhenitsyn’s Red Wheel
n It is not uncommon for readers of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s final novel, The Red Wheel, to draw…
Letters
MARRIAGE “The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage” (March) is a clear articulation of the importance…
Traditio Deformis
The long history of defective Christian scriptural exegesis occasioned by problematic translations is a luxuriant one, and…
The Screen and the Book
Books are solid. This is at once a physical description and a metaphysical one, and it is…
Hitting the Gym
I am not attracted to the men at the gym; I just want to look like them. As…
Orthodox Terrorism
Long before Russia’s annexation of Crimea and unproclaimed war in the Donbass, Ukraine had become a religious…
Radical Rupture
The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution by john w. compton harvard, 272 pages, $45 The Constitution…
Heavenly Treasure
The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity by peter brown harvard, 288…
Schubert Revived
Fierrabras composed by franz schubert performed at the 2014 salzburg festival In the world of opera today,…
Taking A Life
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by katha pollitt picador, 272 pages, $25 It’s easy to be a charitable…
A Student’s Memoir
Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education by morris dickstein norton, 320 pages, $27.95 For nearly…
The Power of Love
When I go walking on the street My Guardian Angel walks behind. I hear the rustling of…
Annuncio
Into utter silence came the word,not even the rustle of a mouse, nor bird beyond her window,…