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Opinion

Abortion After Obama

Joseph Bottum

It happens every four years”maybe every two years: Anytime there’s an election in this country, the pundits…

January Letters 224

Various

Asking the Wrong Question

Alan L. Mittleman

I recently attended two conversations under the aegis of the Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions initiative. Both dealt…

Essays

The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s

Richard John Neuhaus

Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most…

Christianity Face to Face with Islam

Robert Louis Wilken

No event during the first millennium was more unexpected, more calamitous, and more consequential for Christianity than…

A Nation of Hustlers

James Nuechterlein

Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829“1877 by Walter A. McDougall Harper, 787 pages, $34.95…

An Apology for Democratic Capitalism

Michael Novak

Until 1989, the most underreported fact of the twentieth century was the death of socialism. Socialism as…

Messianic Gentiles & Messianic Jews

Mark S. Kinzer Matthew Levering

Mark S. Kinzer I am a Messianic Jew”a Jew who adheres to Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth as…

While We’re At It

Richard John Neuhaus

Reviews

O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?

R. R. Reno

Nothing to Be Frightened Of by julian barnesknopf, 256 pages, $24.95 Death has many masks. He comes…

Mind Games

Thomas S. Hibbs

Work on Oneself: ­Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Psychology by Fergus Kerr Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press, 119 pages,…

The Body of the Church

Edward T. Oakes

Can These Bones Live? A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory by Barry Harvey…

Examination of Conscience

Russell Hittinger

The Problem of Natural Law by Douglas?Kries Lexington, 214 pages, $25.95 The decade after the Second World…

Briefly Noted 224

Various

Phenomenology of the Human Person by Robert Sokolowski Cambridge University Press, 360 pages, $26.99 paper Robert Sokolowski…

Poetry

Homecoming

Joseph Bottum

Sometimes I dream I’m flying just above the plain” the world in wheat beneath me, the rivers…

Body Shadows

Bill Coyle

Once upon a time the Chairman ordered the complete destruction of the “Four Pests” plaguing China: bedbugs,…

Desert Blossoming

Amit Majmudar

The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and ­blossom. Like the…

Ghazal to the One

Robert Mezey

Sun’s bliss, leaf shadows, a honeyed breeze” The world as he would have it be for you,…

Disfigure of Speech

A. M. Juster

I hear the yowling of the cats of war . . . Oh no . . .…