November 2014
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Letters
Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in “Divorce and Remarriage” (August/September)…
Interfaith, Interracial
A few weeks ago, I found myself speaking about interfaith marriage at a Reform synagogue in a wealthy…
Angels in Ferguson
When the New York Times printed a short profile of Michael Brown just as mourners were preparing…
Freakish Belonging
Michael Alig was paroled this May into the world he helped invent. Starting in the summer of…
Majoring in Fear
More than a decade ago, David Brooks described a generation of America’s elite university students as “organization…
Rebuilding Democracy
Never was the future in Germany so little foreseeable, nor the chaos so ubiquitous as in the…
From Morality to Policy
“Yes means yes.” That’s the slogan promoting the new California guidelines regarding sexual assault on college and…
A Memorial to Forget
Monuments have always been intended to embody the past and elevate the spirit, but the new $700-million…
The Reformation at Five Hundred
On October 25, many churches will once again observe “Reformation Sunday,” commemorating the day in 1517 when…
2014 Supreme Court Roundup
The biggest cases decided by the Supreme Court in the term that ended this past July concerned,…
Protestant Martyr
Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by charles marsh knopf, 528 pages, $35 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s appeal…
Pointed Principles
Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840–70 by g. a. bremneryale,…
Tragic Hero
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul by daniel gordis ?schocken, 295 pages, $27.95 In 1981, at…
Baby Daddies
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City ?by kathryn edin and ?timothy j. nelson?…
Sin’s Nature
Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything ?by robert r. reilly? ignatius, 250 pages,…
Blue, Red, Blue
After two clashing days—ultramarine overlaid with vermilion— it came to me late the third afternoon that…
Minor
Pillar of cloud parting the cold: first breath post-birth. Ichor coruscates as the cord cuts: lodestar leads…
Dead Souls
The dead lie in their linen, white as chalk, Their noses, lips and eyes are sewn tight…
