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Opinion

April Letters

Various

Laughing Matters I am gratified that much of my assessment of Kierkegaard’s humor is confirmed by a…

Who Wants War? An Exchange

George Weigel Paul J. Griffiths

Paul J. Griffiths The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history,…

Reviews

The Language of Belief

Robert Louis Wilken

Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition by Eamon Duffy Continuum. 187 pp. $16.95 Faith of…

Jesus Christ Superfluous

Colleen Carroll Campbell

When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today by Harvey Cox Houghton Mifflin. 338 pp. $26…

Briefly Noted 9

Various

John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master. By Jack Zupko. University of Notre Dame Press. 550…

Text Before Subtext

Maxwell Goss Elizabeth Goss

Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court’s Wittiests, Most Outspoken Justice edited by Kevin A. Ring Regnery.…

Covenant and Civility

Alan L. Mittleman

For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity by Irving Greenberg…

Poetry

Easter Morning

Joseph Bottum

Quick as dawn, the dogwoods have raised improbable awnings, christened with rain. Thrusts of witch-hazel, stands of…

To My Grandfather

Anthony Lombardy

You sailed four times before you could give up your native town for good and the stone…