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Opinion

February Letters 70

Various

Science and Climate Change I am writing to express my disappointment with Thomas Sieger Derr’s “Strange Science”…

Dualistic Delusions

Robert P. George Patrick Lee

Disputes about metaphysical issues rarely make the newspapers. The ancient argument about the nature and identity of…

Orthodoxy and Reticence

Shalom Carmy

It has been forty years since my revered teacher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, popularly known as “the Rav”…

Reviews

When Worlds Collide

Mark Movsesian

Snow by Orhan Pamuk Knopf. 426 pp. $26. Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11,…

Freedom’s Surety

Jean Bethke Elshtain

American Providence: A Nation with a Mission by Stephen H. Webb Continuum. 173 pp. $22.95 Perhaps Stephen…

Muffling the Clash

Lawrence A. Uzzell

The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations in Not Inevitable by Michael Novak Basic.…

Roland Redivivus

David Bentley Hart

Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) by Matteo Maria Boiardo translated by Charles Stanley Ross Parlor. 717 pp.…

Off at College

Mary Ann Glendon

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 646 pp. $28.95 When the heroine…

Briefly Noted 7

Various

Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies. By David T. Koyzis. InterVarsity.…

Poetry

Serenading the Neighbors

Jim Hayes

Little Albert has a way of driving all the neighbors mad” a trait, his mother likes to…

Talking to Lord Newborough

David Anthony

(Lt. William Charles Wynn, 1873-1916, 4th Baron Newborough, whose grave overlooks the Vale of Ffestiniog in North…

Solitude—The Wilds

Rhina P. Espaillat Miguel Hernandez (1910-1942)

What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in…