January 2005
January Letters 69
Canadian Conservatives? Raymond J. de Souza’s “Unsettling Canada” (October 2004) contains solid hints about why social conservatives…
Bob Casey’s Revenge
I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot. So said John Kerry during the presidential campaign. Judging…
Anglicanism Runs Aground
The good ship Anglican, as Archbishop Robin Eames acknowledges in his preface to the Windsor Report, appears…
Saving the Pledge
What can you do when the Supreme Court is wrong? Amend the Constitution? It’s nearly impossible. Appoint…
Extended Conversation
Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior by brooke allen ivan r. dee, 244…
Rival Immortalities
Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson…
Guinness Backstage
Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography by Piers Paul Read Simon & Schuster, 624 pp. $30. Apropos biography,…
Fleeting Light
Voltaire in Exile by Ian Davidson Grove, 326 pp. $24 If a person of faith troubles to…
Briefly Noted 6
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason By Sam Harris W.W. Norton 256pp.…
Letter from Ty’r Glyn
I write to you from Wales, my last address, confirmed now in the idleness which age and…
The Episcopal Priest Cleans Out His Office
After the years of tear-drying and tissue-passing, the closed-door conferences above reproach and beyond remembrance, he packs…
The Old Country
In that darkness there could be no hope” Not merely light withdrawn but light refused. The ashen…