Arts & Letters
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Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Tony Hendra’s Father Joe was given a front page review in the New York Times Book Review…
What’s Upstairs
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity By Nancy Pearcey Crossway, 479 pp. $25 It is…
Ture Mercy and Charity
True Mercy and Charity Saving America: Faith-based Services and the Future of Civil Society by Robert Wuthnow …
The Things That Remain
The Things That Remain Dylan’s Vision of Sin. by Christopher Ricks. Ecco 517 pp. $26.95 reviewed by…
September Letters
War and Statecraft Reconsidered In “War and Statecraft: An Exchange” (March), George Weigel is right to distinguish…
Jesus in America
The America of the title is the United States, from colonial times to the present. The Jesus…
Briefly Noted — 6/04
The military chaplaincy in the West is the subject of this compilation of essays by historians and…
Of Time and the River
Of Time and the River I love the way the river rollicks here, and how it sluices…
American Judaism: A History
This year marks the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America. In 1654, twenty-three Jews arrived…
Luther, the Controversy
I noted with interest Edward T. Oakes’ review of Luther (“Luther, the Movie,” January). His remarks about…
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. By Michael McGerr.…
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“We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. By David Herbert Donald. Simon & Schuster. 269…
Alone in the Academy
I was starting the second year of a Ph.D. program in U.S. history at the University of…
Common Sense and Common Law
Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism.by James R. Stoner, Jr.University Press of Kansas. 208 pp. $29.95. For most…
Letters
The Church and the Holocaust To the extent that it is read by Catholic apologists and others…
