February 2012

Anything Goes ?by Theodore Dalrymple New English Review Press, 218 pages, $19.95 n In much learning there…

A young woman in the house helps the once idealistic parent to see the error in assuming…

I think Mitt Romney’s a good, moral man,” Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress told CNN at last…

An old textual conundrum regarding the New Testament, frequently revisited by those who fret over every jot…

Mocking Mormonism is one of the last frontiers of verbal lawlessness to be untouched by the vigilante…

Exporting Gay Rights It was a telling speech, Hillary Clinton’s address to the United Nations Human Rights…

After his death in 1990, Michael Oakeshott’s executors found dozens of unpublished but completed essays in the…

Leo Strauss is the thinker who in the last few decades has contributed the most to the…

The term poète maudit, or “cursed poet,” was coined by Paul Verlaine. His little book Les poètes…

Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty by Lisa A. Keister Cambridge, 254 pages,…

In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe by Adam Michnik University of California Press, 248…

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith…

Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art by timothy gorringe yale university press, 254 pages, $45…

The Romantic Revolution: A History by tim blanning modern library, 272 pages, $22 The very aim that…

An atom’s 99.9% nothing at all. The world’s an empty place. Its solid shapes are objects we…

Probably an olive or acacia, as far as scholars can determine. Of course there are scholars who…

The opportunity for us To kick up dust and start a fuss Has so decreased in recent…

With my father’s Army ballpeen hammer I’d found down in the cellar, I kept banging on the…