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Opinion

September Letters

Various

Kangaroo Canada

Douglas Farrow

Mark Steyn is the author of the bestselling America Alone , a witty tirade against the decline…

The Very Autonomous Steven Pinker

Paul J. Griffiths

In May, Steven Pinker published in the New Republic a jeremiad against dignity as a tool of…

Essays

The Death of Protestant America

Joseph Bottum

That Evangelical Manifesto

Richard John Neuhaus

The Vindication of Humanae Vitae

Mary Eberstadt

That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places…

Benedict in America

Richard John Neuhaus

In saying that one must guard against superlatives in recounting Pope Benedict’s apostolic visit this April, one…

Reviews

Thy Canonized Bones

Robert S. Miola

The Quest For Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome by Joseph Pearce Ignatius,…

Someone’s Property

George McKenna

Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism by Peter C. Myers University Press of Kansas,…

What Natural Theology Isn’t

Thomas S. Hibbs

The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology by Alister E. McGrath Wiley-Blackwell, 384 pages, $94.95…

All Too Human

Philip Zaleski

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $24.95 Chesterton said of original sin…

Ad Orientem

Robert Louis Wilken

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by judith herrin princeton university press, 440 pages, $29.95…

Briefly Noted 219

Various

Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream by ross…

Poetry

Saint-Séverin, II

Catherine Savage Brosman

With Notre-Dame, the Sacré-Coeur, and all the rest, obscure or famous”Trinity, Saint-Julian-the-Poor, Saint-Roch, Saint-Paul” it’s just another…

In David’s Line

Timothy Murphy

I've no faith in the power of my prayer. Grant me the grace to phrase a psalm…

The Annunciation

Samuel Menashe

She bows her head Submissive, yet Her downcast glance Asks the angel, “Why For this romance, Do…

Backyard Triumph

Stephen Scaer

Truant from April chores I daydream in a chair beneath a tree that scatters its petals when…