December 2001
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Universalism Redux
In ” Will All Be Saved? ” (Public Square, August/September) Richard John Neuhaus uses an interesting argument…
The Indulgence Controversy, Again
Most Protestants may not be able to give a precise explanation of the doctrine of justification or,…
Passion Stomp
The ovation at the close of its premiere in Stuttgart was so raucous that people out on…
Millennials Floating
This time last year, a book called Millennials Rising began to make headlines. The authors, Neil Howe…
In a Time of War
This is war. Call it a sustained battle or campaign, if you will, but the relevant moral…
A Lethal Evolution
It started with a headache. It ended with a shocking death, a devastated family, a tarnished reputation…
The American Mind
The Public Square Students of the political philosopher Leo Strauss are fond of quoting the master to…
Briefly Noted 38
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction By Michael Cook Oxford University Press. 162 pp. $8.95 The Qur’an…
Hamlet in Purgatory
Reviewed by Carol Zaleski This is a brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and…
Frontiers of Legal Theory
Reviewed by Robert T. Miller Judge Richard A. Posner is for many the most brilliant jurist of…
Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas
Reviewed by Edward T. Oakes By an odd coincidence (or is it really coincidence?), the two most…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology
Reviewed by Robert P. Kraynak Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, is not yet…
While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers
Reviewed by George McKenna In the preface to While God Is Marching On , Steven E. Woodworth,…
Poetry
The neighborhood changed the day the dead moved in. The rich barred their gates, the reputable fled.…
