February 2009
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The Return of the Best and Brightest
The election is over and the inauguration is upon us. There has been and will be a…
A Religion for Atheists
Alain de Botton has been engaged for many years now in an intriguing project”to get people to…
Progress Without Pause
Dear Hannah, I know you saw the news almost a year ago about the successful cloning of…
Secularizations
As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and…
The Will to Disbelieve
Imagine for a moment that much of the world is living under a set of ideas that…
What Art Can—and Can’t—Do
During flirtations with existentialism in my youth, I came to love the mysterious Book of Ecclesiastes, with…
Catholics as They Were
The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America by James M. O’Toole Harvard University Press, 384 pages,…
The Book of Numbers
Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $26 When it comes to…
A Level Praying Field
Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought by Joshua A. Berman Oxford University Press,…
A Place in the Cosmos
The Writings of Charles De Koninck, Volume 1 edited by Ralph McInerny University of Notre Dame Press,…
God-Talk
Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology by Michael Fishbane University of Chicago Press, 246 pages, $30 The word…
Briefly Noted 225
What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of 19th Century American Rabbis by Naomi Cohen New York…
Hallelujah
Eyes open to praise The play of light Upon the ceiling” While still abed raise The roof…
At This Still Point of the Turning World
The winter poplars stand” Strange masts with spars Under cold stars. I shall wait a myriad sail…
Visiting Geneva
I came to Geneva by the bullet train up from church kero lamps” it must have been…
