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Opinion

January Letters 69

Various

Canadian Conservatives? Raymond J. de Souza’s “Unsettling Canada” (October 2004) contains solid hints about why social conservatives…

Bob Casey’s Revenge

William McGurn

I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot. So said John Kerry during the presidential campaign. Judging…

Anglicanism Runs Aground

Douglas Farrow

The good ship Anglican, as Archbishop Robin Eames acknowledges in his preface to the Windsor Report, appears…

Saving the Pledge

Vincent Phillip Muñoz

What can you do when the Supreme Court is wrong? Amend the Constitution? It’s nearly impossible. Appoint…

Reviews

Extended Conversation

J.A. Gray

Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior by brooke allen ivan r. dee, 244…

Rival Immortalities

Eric Cohen

Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson…

Guinness Backstage

Edward Short

Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography by Piers Paul Read Simon & Schuster, 624 pp. $30. Apropos biography,…

Fleeting Light

Algis Valiunas

Voltaire in Exile by Ian Davidson Grove, 326 pp. $24 If a person of faith troubles to…

Briefly Noted 6

Various

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason By Sam Harris W.W. Norton 256pp.…

Poetry

Letter from Ty’r Glyn

Clive Watkins

I write to you from Wales, my last address, confirmed now in the idleness which age and…

The Episcopal Priest Cleans Out His Office

Marjorie Maddox

After the years of tear-drying and tissue-passing, the closed-door conferences above reproach and beyond remembrance, he packs…

The Old Country

Matthew Boudway

In that darkness there could be no hope” Not merely light withdrawn but light refused. The ashen…