April 2013
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Letters
Elect Voters At the outset of his thoughtful “The Evangelical Voter” (February), John G. West complains that…
Wendell Berry’s Marriage Reversal
Wendell Berry’s recent self-described “general declaration” in support of “homosexual marriage” shocked many, fans and critics alike.…
Si Fueris Romae
In 1919, Davidson Black—today chiefly remembered as a colleague of Teilhard de Chardin—was made a professor in…
God and the Gaps
Most often the story is told like this: There is some feature of the world that science…
Leaving Brooklyn
My family had been in Brooklyn (or, as I will ever call it, God’s country) for over…
The Next Pope
The Next Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation marks the end of the heroic generation. Writing as I am…
Reason Enraptured
Anyone who tries to evaluate the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar faces not only the sheer…
Eudaimonia in America
America is under attack in the pages of First Things. In a recent article Notre Dame professor…
Faith’s Political Witness
In revealing himself, God was not merely concerned with sating our curiosity. His revelation sheds no special…
Ruling to Serve
Those of us who are citizens of liberal democratic regimes do not refer to those who govern…
Anti-Antipolitics
In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Michael Walzer Yale, 256 pages, $28 In the…
Good Council
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley Harvard, 352 pages, $27.95 Professor John O’Malley…
Kurzweil’s Phantasms
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil Viking, 352 pages,…
Schooling Dangerously
Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement by joseph murphy Corwin, 200 pages, $34.95 The Year…
Japan’s Epic
The Tale of the Heike Translated by Royall Tyler Viking, 784 pages, $50 If you have ever…
Briefly Noted
The One Thomas More by Travis Curtright CUA, 231 pages, $64.95 Pius XII went from being a…
Easter Spoils, 2012
This is the end—for me, the beginning of life. —Dietrich Bonhoeffer (from his last recorded words) Words…
Feeding
Here she is again, old Worm-beak, Breast the color of a mud lake, Perched on a post…
Primavera
It is Spring and the young Are all falling in love. It is Spring and the tongue…
