American Politics
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God and Evolution: An Exchange
I Howard J. Van Till Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article “Creator or…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
Against Peer Fear
In response to many inquiries, we are pleased to report that Father Neuhaus continues to recover very…
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as…
National Service as Duty and Perk
I know a man who spends four or five weeks of every year in the army. He…
Black Spruce
From a distance it looked like ordinary wood, a snuff-colored twig one might rake for burning. Surfaced …
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
Contraries
Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in…
Sex and the Single Life
What is it that Christians ought to say and do about the issue of sexual relations between…
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
Grandparents
Thinking of my grandparents, I stand for a moment on the curb of a street they often…
Saving the World
In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the…
St. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903–1939 by martin stannard norton (1987), 537 pages, $10.95 paper Evelyn Waugh: The…
Choice Trees
In primal garden the tree stands laden, splendor consummate, grace-rooted, owned by him who warns, don’t eat…
