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Opinion

Letters

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MACINTYRE’S ECONOMICS Robert T. Miller first says that I am a great philosopher (“Waiting for St. Vladimir,”…

The Beauty of the Ethical

Ross McCullough

How, then, shall he be a god, who has not as yet been made a man? —St.…

Restoring the Village

Anthony Esolen

In the year 1215, at a place called Runnymede, the barons of England, having paused from their…

Essays

Living with Inequality

James Nuechterlein

Inequality is, always and everywhere, a fact of economic life. It is also, always and everywhere, a…

All War, All the Time

George Weigel

Martyrdom has been an integral part of Christian life since the Acts of the Apostles. Yet to…

Thinking About Aging

Gilbert Meilaender

As the number of our years increases, as we age in that simple chronological sense, we also…

Memories of a Catholic Boyhood

Kenneth L. Woodward

On the wall of my Newsweek office, I kept a large map, in a mosaic of colors,…

Evangelicals Divided

Gerald McDermott

Long confused with fundamentalism by most of the academy and dismissed as intellectually inadequate, evangelical theology has…

Reviews

Reading Literature Faithfully

Glenn C. Arbery

Christianity and Literature by David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory P. Maillet InterVarsity, 292 pages, $24 In undertaking…

A Review of God’s Many-Splendored Image

Scott D. Moringiello

God’s Many-Splendored Image by Nonna Verna Harrison Baker, 207 pages, $22.99 n Genesis 1:27 declares that human…

Sects, Politics, and Religion

Francis Beckwith

Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics by Robert Benne Eerdmans, 120 pages, $14…

A Review of I Am with You Always

Nathaniel Peters

I Am with You Always by Benedict Groeschel Ignatius, $37.95, 507 pages n From the New Testament…

A Review of Mad World

Edward T. Oakes

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne Harper, 368 pp. $25.99 n…

The Forms Behind the Laws

Patrick McKinley Brennan

Ministers of the Law by Jean Porter Eerdmans, 368 pages, $30 n Some years ago, the acclaimed…

A Review of Ethics with Barth

Robert W. Jenson

Ethics with Barth  by Matthew Rose Ashgate, 226 pages, $89.95 This is a necessary book, whether one…

Rediscovering Hollywood’s Eve

Armond White

Playing a middle-aged woman still remorseful about the teenage decision to give up her out-of-wedlock baby for…

Inevitable Scholasticism

Thomas Joseph White

Introduction to Scholastic Theology by ulrich g. leinsle trans. michael j. miller catholic university of america, 392…

Poetry

Holy Childhood

Sr. Lou Ella Hickman I.W.B.S.

did you know summer hides even as she shines once, she whispered to the chinese tallows and…

Revelation

Brian Doyle

I am soaking in Revelation, in the King James, just before dawn, The dog snoring in his…

Despair

Jennifer Reeser

She’s not the special one you thought would need protection till the end. She feeds on quarrel…

The Lesson of the Artichoke

Leslie Monsour

The buds are harvested before their hour, Then must be steamed or boiled before they yield The…

Anniversary In-Sink-Erator

Stephen Scaer

The stream beneath the site of our proposal at Vista Valley Country Club’s faux bridge has brought…

At the Ballet

Catherine Savage Brosman

A bold conception, said to be first-class, with varied styles of gesture, steps, and play, plus music,…