January 2010
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
The War Between the Sexless Mary Eberstadt (“What Does Woman Want?” October 2009) and the authors (Caitlyn…
Disorder in the Court
Since Oliver Cromwell allowed Jews to settle in England in 1656, Britain’s Jews have often suffered indignities,…
Where Have All the Lefties Gone?
During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to…
Treasures in Heaven
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven”…
Our Muddled Masses
It would appear that America needs a miracle to escape the “new normal” of low growth. We…
Cicero Superstar
More rare than athletes who have played both baseball and football in the major leagues are individuals…
American Exceptionalism and American Religion
It is a curious formula, that phrase “American exceptionalism.” As commonly used, the phrase suggets that the…
From Eire to Eternity
A Very Brief History of Eternity by Carlos Eire Princeton, 258 pages, $24.95 Carlos Eire, A Yale…
Approaching God: The Way of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Approaching God: The Way of Abraham Heschel by John C. Merkle Liturgical Press, 121 pages, $19.99 The…
Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning
ARENDT, AUGUSTINE, AND THE NEW BEGINNING by Stephan Kampowski Eerdmans, 364 pages, $50 paper This scholarly study…
Armenian Golgotha
Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915“1918 by Grigoris Balakian translated by Peter Balakian and…
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy Yale, 280 pages, $28.50 n Before…
The Tenure Itch
Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy by Benjamin Pollack Cambridge, 352 pages, $90 n The…
Tuesdays With Morbid
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom Hyperion, 254 pages, $23.99 n I would be very surprised…
Living Constitution, Dying Faith
Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence by Bradley C.S. Watson ISI Books,…
Matter Over Mind
Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities About Human Nature By Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S.…
Politics For The Greatest Good
Politics For The Greatest Good: The Case for Prudence in the Public Square by Clarke D. Forsythe…
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court by Ronald B. Flowers, Melissa Rogers, and Steven K. Green Baylor,…
All Together Now
Biblical Natural Law: A Theocentric and Teleological Approach by Matthew Levering Oxford, 260 pages, $110 The Dominican…
The Dawkins Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Free Press, 480 pages, $30…
For Benson A. Koenig (1912_1997)
Battery A, 10th AART Battalion, U.S. Army North Africa and Italy, 1942“1944 Those last three days, reciting…
Snow Weather
A falcon on a wire Against the laden sky Scanned his brown empire With a black-ice eye.…
All That Is Needed
For every lean brown cow, a makeshift shack for shelter made of splintered planks and poles, crowned…
The Four Quartets Revisited
On opening a long unopened book, What dank whiff rises from the parting pages, What genie is…
Mister Wilson
One time a zillion years ago I played on a basketball team On which eight players had…
Descendants
Soon enough, new pharaohs arise. On sand these leaders shift The winds aside. Like gods they flood…
The Metaphysics of Success
Supposing God to be exactly that which happens anyway, however tall you build your house, your bank…
Noah’s Raven
“Noah . . . sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters…
