October 2009
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A Tiny Pietà
My unborn son’s story began, five years before he died, on my parents’ screened-in porch on a…
Origin of the Specious
I suppose it would sound somewhat bigoted of me to say that readers should be suspicious of…
A Prayer Book of One’s Own
There’s a buzz in the air in the Orthodox Jewish community, and it’s about the publication of…
Be Afraid—Be Very Afraid
The horror-film genre is multiplying like one of its own monsters, showing six-fold growth over the past…
Economic Justice and the Spirit of Innovation
When the word morality comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually…
The Day for the Religious
So the rabbis came. Or, at least, a thousand of them went to their telephones to listen…
Charity and Unity
When the pope’s new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, appeared this summer, its ambitious scope and curious composition left…
What Does Woman Want?
For a few interesting weeks this summer—catapulted by romantic melodramas with a wide cast of characters, including…
The Moral Witness of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
With his passing a year ago—on August 3, 2008, at the age of eighty-nine—the world was obliged…
We Were Believers Once, and Young
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, With “On My Religion” by John Rawls…
Priest to Pontiff
Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait by peter seewald ignatius, 260 pages, $24.95 When Peter Seewald published a…
The Book of Judges
Law and Judicial Duty by Philip Hamburger Harvard, 686 pages, $49.95 Recent events have brought the ordinarily…
The Summer of 1683
The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft Basic, 368…
Briefly Noted 10-09
Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity by William Murchison Encounter, 215 pages, $25.95 The…
Beyond the Wild Wood
The Annotated Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Annie Gauger. W.W. Norton, 480 pages,…
Saint Askew
St. Askew’s shoe Shall always undo The earth tips And he does too Singing he sighs As…
July
Who would eat An egg you fry On the sidewalk In July?
An Execration for an Unfaithful Husband
O may the girlfriend of your nightmares stalk you on the Internet, and “need to talk,” and…
Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose
Which produced more civilizations, yellow grass or green? Who made poverty legal? Who made poverty at all?…
Foster Child
Everywhere she goes, he goes. She’s brought him here for Sunday tea. He’s been with me two…
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
He’s not alone”blue herons like to feed here, egrets, mallards, ducks of lesser fame; but his is…
