April 2008
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April Letters
The Moral Law Reading Robert George’s “Law and Moral Purpose” (January 2008), I found myself nodding in…
AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right
Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and…
The Bible Inside and Out
James L. Kugel has long been something of an outside insider”or maybe an inside outsider. In the…
Smelly Olde England
I lived, while in England, at a confluence—the intersection of a pedestrian lane, which led to three…
Our Stillborn Renaissance
Waldo—as the seventeen-year-old Ralph Waldo Emerson took to calling himself—was one of eight children raised by a…
The Sixties, Again and Again
Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to…
Class and the Classroom
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens Harvard University Press,…
Manifesting Destiny
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815“1848 by Daniel Walker Howe Oxford University Press, 928…
Poetics and Power
A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill Yale University Press, 64 pages, $16 (paper) In 1659,…
A Mirror Darkly
Arts of Darkness:?American Noir and the Quest for Redemption by Thomas S. Hibbs Spence, 316 pages, $27.95…
Briefly Noted 246
Myth and Thought Among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant Zone, 505 pages, $25 The superciliousness of Vernant’s…
The Magdalenes
Magdala on the Via Maris hosted the caravans; Egyptian traffic”glass in ingots, ivory, lapis, apricots, papyrus, ostrich-feather…
Now
There is never an end to loss, or hope I give up the ghost for which I…
The Resurrection of the Body
A neighbor passing by the widow’s house Stopped dead on seeing him in the garage Behind the…
Flipside
For joy like this, the only words I know I’ve had to borrow from the other side:…
