October 2008
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October Letters
My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below I was disappointed in reading Robert Miola’s article on…
Righting Wrongs and Wronging Rights
Justice: Rights and Wrongs by Nicholas Wolterstorff Princeton University Press, 416 pages, $39.50 Nicholas Wolterstorff is a…
What Lambeth Wrought
As the Anglican bishop Stephen Neill put it fifty years ago, “The first and burning question is…
Making Business Moral
Business is a calling, even a vocation. It is, to be sure, a way of making a…
Ain’t Nothing But a Meanness in This World
You’ll find here Truman Capote, and James Thurber, and Dorothy Killgallen, and “the queen of true crime,”…
What Really Happened at Vatican II
What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O’Malley Harvard University Press, 372 pages, $29.95 Vatican II:…
The End of the Road
The road dominates the American imagination, from the Oregon Trail to Route 66. That strange, in-between time…
Is Mormonism Christian?
Bruce D. Porter Mormonism has been much in the news over the past year. The presidential campaign…
And His Name Shall Be Called Emmanuel
The One Who Is to Come by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. Eerdmans, 224 pages, $18 Joseph Fitzmyer…
A Rhetorical Question
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush by Elvin…
Wrestling With an Angel
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein by Hilary Putnam Indiana University Press,…
Reading, Writing, and Reformation
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents by James Simpson Harvard University, Press368 pages, $27.95…
Briefly Noted 220
The Satires of Horace translated by A.M. Juster University of Pennsylvania Press, 160 pages, $34.95 Satire is…
Bayside Immortals
San Francisco has not allowed burials within its city limits for over a century. Please come to…
Air on the Side of Prudence
I think that I am suffering From post-neurotic stress disorder A random thought? an ordered world? or…
An Apostle Falls
Betrayal had fulfilled the prophecy. Too proud for penance and too weak to run, he strung himself…
The Great Hall
You need only have noticed someone once, and he will have an entree to your dreams for…
From a Line in a Novel
“Why was this splendid monster given life?” “Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration The rent is due, and…
Augustine’s Confessions, 10.27.38
Wrongly thinking that beauty lay without, blindly I cast about. How late did I begin to realize…
