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Opinion

Against the Marriage Amendment

Various

A More Public Yeshiva

Naomi Schaefer Riley

The investiture of a university president—that is, the ceremony in which the authority and symbols of that…

Luther, the Movie

Edward T. Oakes

At least among sociologists of religion, if not journalists, it has become something of a cliché that…

Confessions of a Christian Historian

Jr. John Witte

“History is God’s theatre, . . . God’s jousting place.”              …

Reviews

Immigration and the Common Culture

Peter C. Meilaender

Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of…

Baptizing Middle-Earth

Anna Mathie

J R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, “Being a cult figure in one’s own lifetime I am…

Briefly Noted 16

Various

The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought. By Rémi Brague.…

Sheer Extravagant Violence

David Bentley Hart

Taras Bulbaby Nikolai Gogol, translated by Peter ConstantineModern Library. 11 pp. $17.95. Where Taras Bulba should be…

A Noble Failure

Daniel J. Mahoney

Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case For Classical Liberalismby Richard A. Epstein.University of Chicago Press. 311 pp.…

From Myth to History and Back

Stephen M. Barr

Galileo in Rome:  The Rise and Fall of the Troublesome Geniusby William R. Shea and Marliano Artigas.Oxford University…