September 2011
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Briefly Noted
God and the Art of Happiness by Ellen T. Charry Eerdmans, 311 pages, $35 Princeton Theological Seminary…
Letters
Avarice and Eden Edward Skidelsky believes that our materialist culture tempts people to do too much productive…
The Religious Antidote
Imagine that a systematic review of the sociology literature found that, in 247 of 273 relevant studies,…
Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs
In most states, young people can drive a car at sixteen. At eighteen, they can vote and…
Wagner’s Incestuous Narcissism
The curtain rises in silence to reveal a stage composed of parallel white planks. With the first…
Protected in Law, Cared for in Life
In one of his last major public addresses, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus declared that “until every human…
Whether Faith Needs Philosophy
Abelard, claimed St. Bernard, was a logic-chopping rationalist whose writings were symptomatic of the anti-contemplative theology of…
The Enduring Irving Kristol
I cannot claim to have known the late Irving Kristol very well. But each encounter was memorable,…
A Splendid Wickedness
The literature of Spain’s “Golden Age” produced two figures—Don Quixote de La Mancha and Don Juan Tenorio—who…
The Cosmopolitan Conservative
Has American liberalism lost its capacity to govern? I’m afraid so. Liberals can still win elections and…
At the Right Hand
Ascension Theology by Douglas Farrow T&T Clark, 177 pages, $27.95 n Simply put,” writes Douglas Farrow, “our…
Enlightening Judaism
Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn’s Theological-Political Thought by Michah Gottlieb Oxford, 209 pages, $55 Jewish historians used…
Sexual Economics
Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying by Mark Regnerus and…
A Pious Scholar
“I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance…
Confecting Evidence
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by brant pitre doubleday, 240 pages, $21.99 A vibrant…
The Ballroom of Heaven
As a Boy Scout, Dad decoded The dit-dit-dahs of Morse, the swashed flags Of semaphore, bugled “Taps.”…
After Prudentius
Everything’s finishing. Soul, it is time to awake, shake from yourself the thin bindings belonging to folly.…
Deferred
I never shot a commie or a Nazi In ’66, but this is what I did: Field-stripped…
Political Calendar
Spring like a popular insurrection rises against a winter government’s assizes; gone mad by June, its liberality…
