Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…
Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…
RJN: 6.7.06 It is getting the attention…
It is getting the attention it deserves in avowedly conservative circles, but Ramesh Ponnuru’s fine book The…
Correspondence
Rice That Springeth Green Cynthia Grenier’s review of Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt…
RJN: 6.01.06 Here’s a happy spin…
Here’s a happy spin. The headline in Catholic New York , “The Nation’s Largest Catholic Newspaper,” reads:…
JB: 5.19.06 We are pleased to…
We are pleased to announce that we have hired Anthony Sacramone to be the new Managing Editor…
Sacred Spaces & Other Places
A Sense pf the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Artby R. Kevin SeasoltzContinuum, 394 pages,…
Tsars & Commissars
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Cultureby Richard Pipes.Yale University Press, 216 pages, $30.…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
Body and Soul
The eight-hundredth anniversary of the death in 1204 of Rabbi Moses the son of Rabbi Maimon the…
Metaphysical Song
First principle, Being’s pure act, Infinite cause Of finite fact, Essential being, Beyond our sight, Without which,…
The Watch and Ward Society
A book should not be judged by its cover; nor, perhaps, should it be judged by its…
The Decent Drapery of Life
The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling By Gertrude Himmelfarb Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages,…
Religion and the Legitimate State
The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally…
RJN 2.8.06 There are many things
There are many things that need to be said about the Muslim reaction to those cartoons in…
Spirit in the Abstract
The last American painters of colossal spiritual ambition were such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett…