January 2017
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Violent Lessons
Children are not exposed to enough violence. Yes, I know the grim statistics, how a child who…
Eros and Dorothy Day
Christians, it has been said, “worry about what people are doing in bed much more than making…
Play American
Just seventy years ago, a Fortune poll reported that 62 percent of Americans listened to classical music,…
A Grim Harvest
Upon learning of his son’s fatal heart disease, a father arranges to donate his own heart in…
Letters
Fascist Fallacy R. R. Reno’s “Election 2016” (November) succeeds as an analysis of the historical context gestating…
Can the Religious Right be Saved?
I am an heir of Bible Belt America, but also a survivor of Bible Belt America. I…
King David
In a provocative and profound essay in this magazine (“A King in Israel,” May 2010), the late…
The Loss of Peace
The title of New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s post-election column was an anguished cry: “America Elects…
After Planning
Thirty years ago, Lucy Suchman’s Plans and Situated Actions reminded us of the limits of our ability…
Franciscan Churchmanship
When Kenneth Clark devoted an episode to the Middle Ages in his magisterial BBC series, Civilisation, he…
Tocqueville in the Gutter
The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselvesby james poulosst martin’s,…
Liturgy of Liberalism
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societiesby ryszard legutko encounter, 200 pages, $23.99 In The…
A New Poverty
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisisby j. d. vanceharper, 272 pages, $27.99…
Getting to Larisa
Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practiceby stephen r. l. clarkuniversity of chicago, 336 pages, $55 Probably nothing…
The K-T Boundary
The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary is a distinct layer in the rock strata laid down about 65 million…
All We Like Sheep
A statue of the risen Lord, No more than four feet tall, Composed of resin painted gold,…
Contra Mundum
The world unfurls its flag of toleration,issues its edicts of equality,and he who bears the sign of…
