November 2011
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Briefly Noted
Julian of Norwich, Theologian by Denys Turner Yale, 262 pages, $40 n The fourteenth-century anchorite Julian of…
Letters
developing status Christopher Kaczor (“Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs,” August/September) echoes a fallacious argument now popular among pro-life…
Changing Minds, Saving Lives
The propagandist hopes you will not think too carefully, the persuader asks you to consider. Persuasion changes…
Against Stupidity
I have been thinking a lot about stupidity lately, largely, I suppose, because I spend a good…
The Dignifying Family
Those who lost their rights but kept their dignity, as John Paul II and the Polish people…
On Literature and the Life of Torah
It was not inevitable that I would come to read Colm Tóibín. I had resisted putting him…
Is Purgatory Biblical?
Nearly a decade ago Jerry Walls wrote an article for this magazine (“Purgatory for Everyone”) in which…
The Islamic Case for Religious Liberty
The words of the Qur’an and hadith contain rich resources for supporting the democratic order. If Muslims…
After Establishment
For a long time Irish politics and culture have been married to Catholicism. Now we seem to…
Restoring The Words
Two workers at the Ministry of Truth, Smith and Syme, sit at a table in an underground…
Germanizing Protestantism
Founding the Fathers: ? Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth Clark University…
Messianic Restraint
Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $35 n…
Treating Democracy
The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age by Ralph C. Hancock Rowman and…
A Generation Detached
Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood by Christian Smith, with Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson,…
Scientia ad Absurdum
The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions by Alex Rosenberg W. W. Norton, 368 pages,…
At a Priest’s Grave
Bare trees under a requiem of clouds. Snow. Over the ground a gaggle of geese Hustles across…
Farewell, Mr. Wizard
I conjure NBC in black-and-white. You drop dry ice in water; fog is rising. You sell us…
Little Testament
Sure as that first command which strung the light like thread onto a loom to stitch the…
At the Recital
Word trickled down the aisle that he had died. My first response: how did they even know?…
