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Opinion

November Letters

Various

Harsh Realities or Handy Myths? In “The Women of Roe v. Wade ” (June/July) Mary Ann Glendon’s…

Tolkien and the Gift of Mortality

Anna Mathie

When I started reading The Lord of the Rings as an undergraduate, I was half-embarrassed to be…

The Bigot’s Opera

Michael Linton

The Commander enters the living room carrying a big black Bible. He reads Genesis 30:1-3 to his…

Scandal, Prayer, and Penance

O.P. Sister Mary Catharine of Jesus

When my family in Massachusetts first told me the news of priests in Boston being accused of…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 57

Various

Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith. By Eric O. Jacobsen. Brazos. 192 pp.…

The Making of a Killer

Paul R. McHugh

Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist. by Alston Chase W.W. Norton. 432 pp.…

Too Much Democracy?

William Ruger

The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby fareed zakariaw.w. norton, 286 pp, $26.95 Since ancient…

The Risen Christ

Gary A. Anderson

The Resurrection of the Son of God by n. t. wright. fortress. 740 pp. $39 The past…

Poetry

To Christ on the Cross

Miguel de Guevara (1585-1646) Robert Schechter

I am not moved to love you, Lord, to gain the heaven you have promised in return.…

Herod’s Confusion

Paul Lake

As her dance dissolves and smiling Salome Sashays across the floor in smoky veils To join her…