February 2010
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Correspondence
A Protestant Education n Thank you for the fine article by Jason Byassee and L. Gregory Jones…
Zion in Winter
Is religious Zionism in crisis? The 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, and the Oslo peace process that preceded…
Filmmaking by Numbers
It’s a sign of the times that Federico Fellini’s 1963 classic 8½ ”widely considered the best film…
Assaulting Arendt
(footnoted version)
The honorable tradition of criticism carries with it a displeasing aspect. This is especially the case in…
Some Like It Warm
These days, in the matter of climate change, simple epistemology has become a matter of dispute. Competing…
The Bible, Rated R
W.W. Norton, the publisher of R. Crumb’s best-selling The Book of Genesis Illustrated , was certainly aware…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide
Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal by Dana Evan Kaplan 446 pages, $34.50 n A housewife in…
Brain Food
Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar by Paul Griffiths Catholic University of America, 235 PAGES, $24.95 n All…
Christianity Lite
Once in a while comes an historical event so momentous, so packed with unexpected force, that it…
Assaulting Arendt
The honorable tradition of criticism carries with it a displeasing aspect. This is especially the case in…
Review of Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning
Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning: The Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt in the…
Review of Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar
Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar by Paul Griffiths CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 235 PAGES, $24.95 n All…
Review of Life in Space
Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone by Lucas John Mix Harvard, 344 pages, $29.95 n Mix is…
Review of Money, Greed, And God
Money, Greed, And God: Why Capitalism Is The Solution And Not The Problem by Jay W. Richards…
Fast and Furioso
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto translated by David R. Slavitt Belknap, 688 pages,…
Righting Wrongs
Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism by George H. Nash ISI Books, 400…
Review of The Devil Reads Derrida
The Devil Reads Derrida: And Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts by…
Coming Attractions
The Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing The Catholic Church by John L. Allen Jr. Doubleday,…
Unbalancing Act
The Future of Islam by John L. Esposito Oxford, 220 pages, $24.95 n In the forward to…
Review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties by Jonathan Leaf Regnery, 247 pages, $19.95 n “What a…
Review of Universe of Stone
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral by Philip Ball Harper, 322 pages, $27.95 n An…
Review of Who Killed the Constitution?
Who Killed the Constitution? by Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman Crown Forum, 272 pages,…
The Gift of the West
The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the Westby Tom HollandDoubleday, 476…
Galilee Guesthouse
Coffee and leather armchairs, candlelit,nCard-playing in corners, glassware, jumping flamesnIn open fire places. Drinks to hand we…
Prayer
Lord, late though I am, slide the lathe And shape, shave me. Shear me wraith- Slim, slave-thin;…
Et in Arcadia Ego
The evergreens haunt the vineyard’s margin, encircling the bare Truck-and-backhoe mangled hill from whose dry crest I…
Loading Timber
The quarter-inch chain is wrapped around the spruce like a Saxon’s braiding, woven on a forearm. He…
