December 2011
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Briefly Noted
Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines 1740“1803 ?by Ulrich L. Lehner? Oxford 356 pages, $99 n As a…
Letters
Tradent and Traitor I am disappointed that my former colleague Leroy Huizenga wrote and that First Things…
Because of What God Has Done
My host told me, a rabbi with a yarmulke on my head, to address the pope in…
Hume’s Destructive Genius
Recently recognized was the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Celebrations were…
The Living City
Works of social criticism often do not wear well, and even the best of them tend to…
With What Right and What Justice?
Five hundred years ago this Advent, a Dominican friar named Antonio de Montesino delivered a sermon haranguing…
Leo Steinberg’s Artistic Vision
Hundreds of Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child represent the Christ Child with his genitals blatantly…
The Failed 9/11 Memorial
Rush-hour traffic emerged from the Battery Tunnel and roared up West Street on that gray, overcast afternoon…
The Evangelical Reform of Catholic Advocacy
The Catholic Church of the early twenty-first century is constantly being told that it must reform, both…
Natural Rights Trump Obamacare, or Should
Past the politics of Obamacare”the tawdry buying of votes, the spectacle of representatives in a republic passing…
Lacking Liberalism
The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader ? by Wilson Carey Mcwilliams,? edited by Patrick J.…
Niebuhr Without Irony
Why Niebuhr Matters ? by Charles Lemert?yale Yale University Press, 272 pages, $26 n The current Reinhold…
Clarifying War
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by michael burleigh harper, 672 pages, $29.99 World War…
Luminous Wisdom
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye:Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo by Dogen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi (multiple…
Amiable Atheism
In its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the…
On Listening to Haydn
“At the thought of God my heart leaps for joy, and I cannot help my music doing…
The Children’s Crusade of 1212
Aching for Acre, in a sacred ague, They’re setting out. They wear only their nightgowns, These ageless…
Winter Concert
At St. Progressive University We toil to demonstrate diversity. Before our concert, let me tell you how…
Icarus
If no one on the ground or ocean was injured when he turned to a noun what…
