September 2019
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
Immigration Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism, which was lately set forth in Matthew Schmitz’s “Immigration Idealism” (May), famously…
The Demon in Middlebury
The invitation from Middlebury College to speak about my book The Demon in Democracy came last year.…
Nietzsche’s Pilate
In one of his most irreverent moments, in the wild little book The Anti-Christ, composed not long…
The True Con
In June, an announcer on CBS observed, “George Will is essentially unchanged from the way he looked…
Alice McDermott’s Dying Breed
We often blame the unfavorable treatment of traditional religion in contemporary art on animus or ignorance. Sometimes…
Politics and the Sacred
Bret Stephens recently championed the “classically liberal concept of a neutral public square.” In this issue, Matthew…
Belief Limbo
In September 2017, the Public Religion Research Institute published a study of religion in America that showed…
Fear of the Word
My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it…
Woke Totemism
A year ago in April, a student group at the university where I teach invited Amy Wax,…
No Liberal Home
Jesus promises his followers that they will be hated in this world. “If the world hates you,…
Word for Word
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentaryby robert alternorton, 3500 pages, $125 In 1582, Catholic scholars in…
Chaucer’s Divine Seriousness
Chaucer: A European Lifemarion turnerprinceton, 624 pages, $39.95 Chaucer has not lacked for biographies, but Marion Turner’s…
Hating Netanyahu
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahuby anshel pfefferbasic, 432 pages, $32 After Israeli Premier…
Our Socialist Moment
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequalityby bhaskar sunkarabasic, 288…
Keep It Real
An Avant-garde Theological Generation: The Nouvelle Théologie and the French Crisis of Modernityby jon kirwanoxford, 336 pages,…
Briefly Noted
The End is Music: A Companion to Robert W. Jenson’s Theologyby chris e. w. greencascade, 107 pages,…
A Possible Argument for Mercy
Did heaven ever seem so far?Remember—we are as You were,but all our lives, from birth to death—Gethsemane…
