American Politics
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Johann Sebastian Bach: the Learned Musician. By Christoph Wolff. Norton. 599 pp. $39.95 . Great books do…
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)
From Dawn to Decadence is one of those wonderful books that cannot be categorized. Some reviewers have…
To Say Jesus Is Lord
The Public Square Yes, much of the misunderstanding was willful. But the fact is that the media…
Grim Tales
For the past two years, I have been the head “Library Mommy” at my daughter’s private nursery…
A Premature Postmodern
Few would dispute, although some regret, the fact that the single most influential voice in twentieth“century Protestant…
Whistling Dixie
Judging from the public face it presented at its convention in Philadelphia in early August, the Republican…
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Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins…
Our ship stands off the coast
Our ship stands off the coast. From where we lie, The moss“green hills resemble what we’ve lost:…
Narrowboats
Narrowboats I love the ones most obviously lived in: bicycles and pots of lavender arrayed on a…
Technicians of Learning
Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
When Abraham Lincoln entered a nearly empty Richmond, Virginia, on April 4, 1865, black dock workers crowded…
The Church on the Rocks
The Public Square In the May issue I offered my tribute, written as he was dying, to…
Modernist Impasse, Christian Opportunity
The dawn of a new millennium finds us at what some have called the modernist impasse. During…
The Friendship Club
In 1997, in a seedy back alley just off Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee’s inner city,…
In Plato’s Cave
After growing up in poverty in rural Wyoming, Alvin Kernan joined the prewar Navy in 1941 to…
