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Opinion

April 2007 Letters

Various

The Truth About Altruism In his review of The Language of God (December 2006), Stephen Barr seems…

Schooling at Home

Sally Thomas

One morning, as the four children and I prepared to start the school day, I consulted the…

New Theology, Old Economics

Stephen H. Webb

After years spent trapped in the academic equivalent of a singles bar, eagerly courting any discipline, no…

Reviews

Thoroughly Modern Mommy

Elizabeth Powers

Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic…

The Idol State

William Doino Jr.

Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, 557 pages, $27.95 One of Britain’s leading and most popular historians,…

Deadening Pain

Wesley J. Smith

The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain by Thomas Dormandy Yale University Press, 560 pages, $35…

A Canterbury Tale

Daniel B. Gallagher

Grace and Necessity by Rowan Williams Continuum, 144 pages, $14.95 (paper) The election of Rowan Williams as…

Illiberal Liberalism

Peter Berkowitz

Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate by Ronald Dworkin Princeton University Press, 192…

Briefly Noted 179

Various

My Life With the Saints by James Martin, S.J. Loyola Press, 411 pages, $22.95 An account of…

Poetry

The Argument

Oliver Murray

Our priest exulted, “How wonderful His ways,” then climbed his pulpit’s Calvary. The tide, lit by the…

Niagara

Catherine Chandler Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839-1908)

How slowly the majestic river flows, deceptive in its undulating roll; for suddenly it loses all control,…

Of Metaphor in Heaven

Robert W. Crawford

No intimations, fables, puppet shows; No need for parables: up there one sees Reality; good books stay…