February 2005
February Letters 70
Science and Climate Change I am writing to express my disappointment with Thomas Sieger Derr’s “Strange Science”…
Dualistic Delusions
Disputes about metaphysical issues rarely make the newspapers. The ancient argument about the nature and identity of…
Orthodoxy and Reticence
It has been forty years since my revered teacher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, popularly known as “the Rav”…
When Worlds Collide
Snow by Orhan Pamuk Knopf. 426 pp. $26. Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11,…
Freedom’s Surety
American Providence: A Nation with a Mission by Stephen H. Webb Continuum. 173 pp. $22.95 Perhaps Stephen…
Muffling the Clash
The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations in Not Inevitable by Michael Novak Basic.…
Roland Redivivus
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) by Matteo Maria Boiardo translated by Charles Stanley Ross Parlor. 717 pp.…
Off at College
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 646 pp. $28.95 When the heroine…
Briefly Noted 7
Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies. By David T. Koyzis. InterVarsity.…
Serenading the Neighbors
Little Albert has a way of driving all the neighbors mad” a trait, his mother likes to…
Talking to Lord Newborough
(Lt. William Charles Wynn, 1873-1916, 4th Baron Newborough, whose grave overlooks the Vale of Ffestiniog in North…
SolitudeâThe Wilds
What solitary distances, what sere, remote escarpments, what unbounded, wide eternities they are where you reside, in…