November 2013
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Against Symbolic Killing
Against Symbolic Killing n We weren’t, President Obama emphasized, going to use force to achieve a strategic…
Works and Righteousness
The year 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of Veritatis Splendor, surely one of the…
America’s Mainline
The idea that American Protestantism has a “mainline,” or ever did, was born in irony. The mainline…
Polytechnic Utiliversity
University education delivers goods that are seen as commodities, as purchasable means to satisfy individual desires and…
Our Failed Religious Freedom Policy
The religious freedom policy mandated by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act has now been in operation…
Emergence and Formation
A few months ago, I began reading a book by the sociologist Christian Smith called What Is…
Reforming the German Family
Which is more important for the family: marriage or Sunday-closing laws? The answer is clear for the…
Pursuit of Felicitas
In recent years, conservative Aristotelian-Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a…
My First Ordination
My first date with the sweet, wild woman who eventually married me was as follows: We drove…
Letters
Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in “Divorce and Remarriage” (August/September)…
Forced Exit
Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization? by kevin yuill ?palgrave macmillan, 208 pages, $85 n…
Death’s Lover
Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War? by lucy hughes-hallett ?knopf, 608 pages, $35 n An…
Briefly Noted
The Common Mind: Politics, Society and Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk ? by andré…
Divine Authority
God and Moral Obligation by c. stephen evans oxford, 202 pages, $99 Divine command theory is hardly…
Saracens and Dominicans
A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islamby rita george-tvrtkovicbrepols, 248 pages, $116…
Dante Decluttered
The Divine Comedy by dante alighieri translated by clive james liveright, 560 pages, $29.95 For me, the…
Triplicity
Infinity requires us to count to three, our calculus and three-step proof. Dust cubed is dust: The…
How to Have an Abortion
Don’t think about the freckles he, or she, Might have, or how much hair, how big a…
Late Planting Il.
Two hundred miles I sojourned yesterday to see one tractor and its drill …
