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Opinion

Escaping the Exemptions Ghetto

Matthew J. Franck

As the cases challenging the Health and Human Servicesmandate make their way through the courts, the main…

This Time Will Not Be the Same

J. Budziszewski

G od willing, the new evangelization will happen, but let usnot imagine that this time will be…

Roland on Consciousness

David Bentley Hart

A few months ago, the morning before my eldest brother wasto return home to Norway after a…

Letters

Various

Discrimination Even though we disagree on gay marriage and on gay rights more generally, I admire R.…

Essays

Nabokov’s Supernatural Secret

David Bentley Hart

In 2009, the remains of Vladimir Nabokov’s unfinished last novel, The Original of Laura, were published, more…

Keeping Faith in Provo

Ralph Hancock

Oh say, what is truth? ’Tis the fairest gem / That theriches of worlds can produce, /…

Against Heterosexuality

Michael W. Hannon

Alasdair MacIntyre once quipped that “facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.” Something…

The Decline and Rise
of Secular Judaism

Edward S. Shapiro

In his 1782 book Letters from an American Farmer, John de Crèvecœur asked the most famous and…

Inequality and Agency

R. R. Reno

n Inequality and Agency n What is inequality? It’s the unbalanced distribution ofnpower and control over wealth…

Reviews

Briefly Noted

Various

The Future of Religious Freedom: Global Challengeseditedby allen d. hertzke oxford, 386 pages, $29.95 In matters of religious…

Incurious Dawkins

Leah Libresco

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist byrichard dawkins ecco, 320 pages, $27.99    Richard…

Dogma and Beauty

Robert Fay

The Fine Delight: Postconciliar Catholic Literature?bynicholas ripatrazonewipf & stock, 202 pages, $23 Shortly after Robert Lowell’s conversion…

Who’s Right?

Danilo Petranovich

The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Leftby yuval levinbasic, 296…

A Double Life

Ted Gioia

Byrdby kerry mccarthyoxford, 304 pages, $39.95 Judging by the tracks programmed by my local classical music radio…

Divine Perfection

Thomas Joseph White

The God of the Gospel: Robert Jenson’s TrinitarianTheology? by scott r. swain?ivp academic, 258 pages, $24 How…

Poetry

Saving Jesus

Paul Lake

“BrickHouse Security saves Jesus for 8th year in a row, offers free GPS tracking of nativity scenes…

Equipoise

Rachel Hadas

Early light slants low across the lawn.Cuplike, this little valley brims with sun.Pages fill and empty. In…