February 2013
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Briefly Noted
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott Norton, 400 pages, $17.95 In a…
Letters
Consumerist Care It is true that the medical services Wesley J. Smith defines as “consumerist”—such as cosmetic…
The Evangelical Voter
A few weeks before last year’s presidential election, Mitt Romney held a high-profile meeting in North Carolina…
Seeing the God
For the first ten of its eleven chapters, the Metamorphosis or Golden Ass of Apuleius (c. 125-c.…
Constitutionally Catholic
The tension between American democracy, capitalism, and culture is acute—more acute, perhaps, than at any time in…
Sex in the Meritocracy
When Yale first bowed to the spirit of meritocracy and began admitting large numbers of students from…
Who’s Afraid of the Awful Truth?
Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened on Broadway on the eve of the…
Reflections on the Revolution in Rome
As mediated by the journalists, the story of the Second Vatican Council was framed as a battle…
Responsible Conservatism
Conservatism needs to recover its ability to speak to our deep and perennial need for solidarity. The…
War Without End
Paul Miller’s essay is a plea for Americans to persevere in a military undertaking in Afghanistan that…
Toward a Just Order
A half century ago, John Courtney Murray’s response to Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris raised…
Limiting Moralism
A state is not a church. A state exists not to redeem humankind or to do God’s…
Afghanistan, Justice, and War
Afghanistan is a just war, and a just victory requires the reconstruction of the country. So I…
The Good Samaritan’s Burden
In his interestingly wrong-headed essay, Paul Miller argues that there are extraterritorial evils so great that they…
Echoing Mandelstam
Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam Selected and Translated by Christian Wiman Introduction by Ilya Kaminsky…
PORGIing Out
America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) by David Gelernter Encounter Books,…
Unjust Secular Justice
The Machinery of Criminal Justice by stephanos bibas oxford, 320 pages, $75 There are two criminal justice…
Catechism on the Road
A frosty sunlit Sunday morning. We, Still sleepy on our way to early Mass, Were snapped alert”sudden…
The Red Beads: At the Maldonado Flea Market, Uruguay
Among the pipes and pulleys, sacks and seeds, there is a necklace made of crimson beads. Great…
Triolet
Believing in the Eucharist, My faith affirmed within the Host, I welcome”with an upturned wrist, Believing in…
Crosswalk
For several days I’ve watched a robin beat Herself repeatedly against a window. An oracle. A bird-sign…
Lilacs
Lilacs, pummeled in pounding rain, their sweetness sweeter for the pain, release redemptive suffering scent as they…
