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Letters

The Pope in Israel

Various

Correspondence (November 2000) Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 107 (November 2000): 2-8. The Pope in Israel It…

Essays

To Say Jesus Is Lord

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Yes, much of the misunderstanding was willful. But the fact is that the media…

Conservatives, Darwin & Design: An Exchange

Larry Arnhart / Michael J. Behe / William A. Dembski

One sign of the intellectual confusion among conservatives these days is that they cannot decide what to…

Populism and Parental Choice

John E. Coons

Civility is breaking out in a hotly contested sector of the culture war. For thirty years armies…

Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity

Herbert Schlossberg

Dabru Emet (“Speak the Truth”) is a statement by more than 170 Jewish scholars issued in September…

Opinion

Goo–Goo Time

James Nuechterlein

We are in the heart of an election season, which means we are also deep in goo“goo…

For Useless Learning

Peter J. Leithart

In an essay written during World War II, C. S. Lewis raised the question of learning during…

The Human Genome in Human Context

Stephen M. Barr

On June 26, two teams of scientists announced jointly that they had virtually completed the task of…

Reviews

Cassian the Monk and John Cassian: The Conferences

Robert Louis Wilken

Cassian the Monk by columba stewart oxford university press, 304 pages, $45.49 The Conferences of John Cassian…

The Foundations of Christian Bioethics

Gilbert Meilaender

The Foundations of Christian Bioethics by h. tristram engelhardt jr. m & m scrivener press, 440 pages,…

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism

David R. Carlin

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism by robert wiliam fogel university of chicago press,…

Legal Theories Nobody Believes

Steven D. Smith

The Warren Court and American Politics by lucas a. powe, jr. harvard university press, 566 pages, $22.87…

The Sexual Century

Paul R. McHugh

The Sexual Century by ethel person yale university press, 387 pages, $25.71 In The Sexual Century ,…

Briefly Noted 27

Various

Johann Sebastian Bach:The Learned Musicianby christoph wolffnorton, 599 pages, $14.54 Great books do not require long reviews.…

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)

John J. Reilly

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by jacques barzun harper perennial, 912 pages,…

Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production

Ralph C. Wood

Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production by david morgan oxford…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

From fairest creatures we desire increase That being fat they may before they die Have such avoirdupois…

Poetry

Various

From fairest creatures we desire increase That being fat they may before they die Have such avoirdupois…