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Opinion

2007 December Letters

Various

Abortion Politics 2008

Hadley Arkes

For reasons quite plausible, even to people on the pro-life side, Rudolph Giuliani persists in standing well…

The Art of Transgression

Matthew Milliner

Contemporary art refuses any set form, content, or medium—but it does, nonetheless, insist on one sure commandment:…

The End of Advent

Joseph Bottum

Christmas has devoured Advent, gobbled it up with the turkey giblets and the goblets of seasonal ale.…

Reviews

Majority Rules

Lewis Ayres

Voting About God in Early Church Councils by ramsay macmullen yale university press, 192 pages, $30 What…

Faith by the Numbers

Fernando Q. Gouvêa

Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and ­Victorian Faithby daniel j. cohen johns hopkins university press, 256 pages, $50…

To Have and to Hold

W. Bradford Wilcox

Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Ageby kay s. hymowitz ivan…

More in Heaven and Earth

A. M. Juster

Robert Frost:The Poet as Philosopher   by peter j. stanlis isi, 350 pages, $28 Poor Robert Frost.…

Briefly Noted 210

Various

Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger by michael s. rose spence, 182 pages, $22.95 The author…

Poetry

Michael

Samuel Menashe

Make me mighty As a feather Of your wing—Breathe here bright With fearless love — Samuel Menashe Photo by Geran…

For Timothy Murphy

Joseph Bottum

God gives all He has to give—His son to speak that one word, Live. — Joseph Bottum …

The Magi

A. E. Stallings

Christmas Eve, the Word made Flesh, We put the baby in the manger, But could not add…

Horace’s Satires I:VI

A. M. Juster

When I am in the mood, I go explore entirely alone and ascertain the prices set for…