December 2008
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Children’s Books, Lost and Found
Sometimes a book is in the canon of children’s literature just because the writing is so good.…
What to Give a First Things Reader
Seeking ideas for presents this year, we asked several of our well-read friends and contributors for recommendations…
Wrapping Up 2008
Ah, the books of 2008: Who can number them? All About the Beat and The Art of…
Documentation: A Reply to Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion , by the atheist writer Richard Dawkins, is remarkable in the first place for…
Reconciling East and West
It is no secret that the quest for Christian unity has come upon hard times. As a…
Natural Law Revealed
I The relations among nature, reason, and revelation are mysterious for both Protestants and Catholics. Consider John…
The Forgotten Story of Postmodernity
In February 1943, standing before thousands of loyal Nazis in the Sportpalast in Berlin, Josef Goebbels called…
In Defense of the Sovereign Family
Government alone is where law can be found. At least, the American people generally think so. That…
A Governing Shari’a
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im Harvard University Press,…
Women’s Work
Madwomen:The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral translated by Randall Couch University of Chicago Press, 160 pages,…
Annihilating Nihilism
God and the Between by William Desmond Wiley-Blackwell, 368 pages, $44.95 Running through William Desmond’s latest book”the…
The Excellence of Limits
In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology by Eric Cohen Encounter, 180…
Lifeboat Ethics
Since I’m a utilitarian, I’ll eat the vegetarian.
Self-Portrait at Fifty
None of this can be denied: crabby, flabby, full of pride; hypertensive, pensive, snide; slowing, growing terrified.
Effable
1 Where are words when not yet spoken: on the tongue, in the mind, perhaps in air,…
