Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Apologists
The Flight of the Intellectuals by paul berman melville house, 304 pages, $26 Paul Berman’s 2003 book…
Why We Didn’t Overcome
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to…
Pullman Sleeper
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by philip pullman canongate, 256 pages, $24 Teenage sex…
The Seven Deadly Sins
Forget about the other six, says Pride. They’re only using you. Admittedly, Lust is a looker, but…
Saro’s Love Song
In May 2010, the body of Zardasht Osman, a twenty-three-year-old journalist who wrote under the name “Saro…
Letters
Surviving Obamacare Joseph Bottum (“Bad Medicine,” May 2010) is too sanguine in his thoughts about what happens…
Knotwork Medallion
What did you see in the walnut? Horses all harnessed criss-cross And a soldier wearing the credits…
For the Black Cat Encountering Consequences
As wild and callous as you are, by rights You should be banished outside to the ditch,…
Review of Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries
n Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries BY STEPHEN KLIMCZUK AND GERALD WARNER STERLING, 272 PAGES, $19.95 nn An…
The Lost Dimension
n The 3-D explosion in Hollywood may add depth to the screen, but Armond White argues that…
Review of The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture by Scott Klusendorf Crossway Books, 256 pages,…
Pacifying Violence
The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict by William T. Cavanaugh…
Review of The Sabbath World
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz Random House, 246 pages,…
The Christian Difference
Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity By Luke Timothy Johnson Yale, 461 pages, $32.50 n It…
In a Church in Venice
Its marble floor includes a graven granite slab: Monteverdi’s. I mention this not to tell you he’s…
