September 2009
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April Letters
Remembering Richard John Neuhaus The April issue of First Things is a beautiful and moving tribute to…
Aug/Sep Letters
A Green Thought in a Green Shade Alan Jacobs’ critique of The Green Bible (“Blessed Are the…
Her Choice, Her Problem
This summer, President Obama proclaimed again that we “need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn’t end at…
Intolerant Tolerance
Some secularists seem to like one-way streets. Their distaste for Christianity leads them to seek to drive…
Sisters & Daughters
It started back in May 2001, at a graduation party in my daughter’s tiny New York apartment,…
The Rule of Law and the Wealth of Nations
Fundamentals seem to cluster in foursomes. Classical alchemy had four elements, and classical medicine had four humors.…
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Faust?
Critics often use the Bible to help explain literature, but, on rarer occasion, literature may help us…
Death in Naples
The taxi driver shouted, “Tell us! Tell us!” when his other passenger, a local journalist, announced that…
On War and Apocalypse
My work has often been presented as a discussion of archaic religion through comparative anthropology. Its goal…
Empathy & Apathy
During the presidential campaign Barack Obama declared, with no inadvertence, that among the furnishings of mind he…
What Marriage Is—And What It Isn’t
Everyone agrees that marriage, whatever else it is or does, is a relationship in which persons are…
The Beginning of Wisdom
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $29.50 Near the end of…
Pedantic Park
Worlds Made of Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton Harvard, 432 pages,…
Dhimmitude Deferred
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Christopher Caldwell Doubleday, 432 pages, $30 The title of Christopher…
Shades of Infallibility
Papal Infallibility: A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue by Mark E. Powell Eerdmans, 226 pages, $40…
The Face of Civilization
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart Yale, 249 pages, $28…
Briefly Noted 236
Helen Barrett Montgomery: The Global Mission of Domestic Feminism by Kendal P. Mobley Baylor, 420 pages, $39.95…
Morning’s Minion
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paul Mariani Viking, 496 pages, $34.95 Too often, Gerard Manley Hopkins…
If All Is Relative
An interrogative: If all is relative, And truth (like time and space) Has no fixed thought or…
The Return of the Golden Age
Apache rotors, envying windmills no more, Thresh the air wheat-gold. On lonely state routes We can witness…
