Arts & Letters
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Salome
I wonder who taught Salome to dance,To wave her arms, to drop her final veil.For all her…
Anselm Kiefer’s Beautiful Apocalypticism
Anselm Kiefer: A Monograph by dominique baqué thames & hudson, 300 pages, $70 In 2009 I visited…
The Persistence of Print
Just a few years ago, if you asked an editor at a large publishing house about the…
Disciples Are Made in the Home
Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations by george hawleylexington books, 238 pages, $95.00 It’s no…
Evaluating the World’s Religions
The founders of the great, durable religions of the world were not philosophers. The intuitions that our…
Home, Not Freedom
I’m a proponent of academic freedom. But what we need today is a home and an inheritance,…
An Empty Parliament
My nastier, more vindictive side rather hopes that it will take so long to renovate the British…
Prepping for an Amish Apocalypse
A fairly popular contemporary view of the apocalypse envisions it as a sudden and complete shutdown of…
A Memoir I Never Expected to Write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published…
Such a Wreckage
John BradburneThe Vagabond of GodBy Didier RanceDarton, Longman & Todd, 504 pages, $20.77 John Bradburne’s fan club—an…
Ganging Up
As some readers of First Things may already know, Amy Wax, professor of law at the University…
The Parson and the Talmud
This is the first installment in a new biweekly series, in which the First Things junior fellows…
On Blood Moons and Babylonian Whores
The Book of Revelation contains vivid imagery, wild analogies, and rhetoric rife with end-times judgment. John’s enigmatic…
The Crowd
Enticing to the coward is the crowd:It speaks what each dares not to speak alone,And compensates for…
Befriending Geoffrey Chaucer: A Review
The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselvesby norm klassenwipf and stock,…
