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Opinion

January Letters 175

Various

The Kennedy Court

Hadley Arkes

Only a day after the election, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on Gonzales v. Carhart ,…

Maritain’s America

Thomas Albert Howard

Since its founding, the United States has elicited much curiosity and commentary from European intellectuals. Oscillating between…

More on Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy

Edward T. Oakes Alyssa Lyra Pitstick

Alyssa Lyra Pitstick: In his reply in last month’s issue of First Things to my investigations of…

Reviews

Fear and Trembling

Andrzej Fister-Stoga

Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan T. Gross Random House, 320 pages, $25 At the…

Reforming Natural Law

J. Daryl Charles

Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics by Stephen J. Grabill Eerdmans, 328 pages, $38 Stephen…

The Closing of the German Mind

Victorino Matus

The Seduction of Culture in German History by Wolf Lepenies Princeton University Press, 270 pages, $24.95 In…

Human, All Too Human

Zbigniew Janowski

Dialogue with Nietzsche by Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 247 pages, $29.50 It is part of academic…

Briefly Noted 175

Various

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N.T. Wright HarperSanFrancisco, 256 pages, $22.95 Speaking very generally, Christian…

Poetry

To a Lady Contemplating Mischief

Jennifer Reeser

Encompassed at all corners by such fine a cadre of companions, knights, and flags as could be…

The Mystery of the Aleph

Eric Chevlen

The world God made is infinite”or not. Its essence is of matter”or of thought. If finite”how much…

A Prayer for Russia

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Our Father All-Merciful! Don’t abandon your own long-suffering Russia In her present daze, In her woundedness, Impoverishment,…