September 2008
Kangaroo Canada
Mark Steyn is the author of the bestselling America Alone , a witty tirade against the decline…
The Very Autonomous Steven Pinker
In May, Steven Pinker published in the New Republic a jeremiad against dignity as a tool of…
The Vindication of Humanae Vitae
That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places…
Benedict in America
In saying that one must guard against superlatives in recounting Pope Benedict’s apostolic visit this April, one…
Thy Canonized Bones
The Quest For Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome by Joseph Pearce Ignatius,…
Someone’s Property
Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism by Peter C. Myers University Press of Kansas,…
What Natural Theology Isn’t
The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology by Alister E. McGrath Wiley-Blackwell, 384 pages, $94.95…
All Too Human
Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $24.95 Chesterton said of original sin…
Ad Orientem
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by judith herrin princeton university press, 440 pages, $29.95…
Briefly Noted 219
Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream by ross…
Saint-Séverin, II
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
I've no faith in the power of my prayer. Grant me the grace to phrase a psalm…
The Annunciation
She bows her head Submissive, yet Her downcast glance Asks the angel, “Why For this romance, Do…
Backyard Triumph
Truant from April chores I daydream in a chair beneath a tree that scatters its petals when…