Arts & Letters

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Immigration and the Common Culture

Peter C. Meilaender

Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of…

Baptizing Middle-Earth

Anna Mathie

J R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, “Being a cult figure in one’s own lifetime I am…

Seekers and Finders

Wilfred M. McClay

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus &…

The Reality of the Beautiful

Edward T. Oakes

Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue Yale University Press. 209 pp. $24.95 Several days after the massacre…

The Limits of Theory

R. R. Reno

Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications by Daniel N. Robinson Princeton University Press Praise and…

Too Much Democracy?

William Ruger

The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby fareed zakariaw.w. norton, 286 pp, $26.95 Since ancient…

September Letters

Various

In “Ordaining Women: Two Views” (April), Sarah Hinlicky Wilson writes that “if the female cannot represent Christ…

Modernism, Science, and Spirituality

Gregory Wolfe

Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual by lynn gamwell princeton university press, 344 pages, $49.95…

Second-Hand Civ.

Edward T. Oakes

Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization by Rémi Brague Translated by Samuel Lester St. Augustine’s. 205…

Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy

Richard J. Mouw

In my early days of teaching introductory philosophy courses, I always lectured on Socrates’ understanding of the…

The Martin Buber Reader: Essential Writings

Leora Batnitzky

The 1920s and ’30s were a time of intense intellectual ferment in Germany. Radical questioning was the…

Natural Rights & the Right to Choose

David M. Smolin

The anti-abortion movement has been struggling since 1992, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe v. Wade and…

The Conundrum of Evil

Walter Sundberg

evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy by susan neiman  princeton university press, 358 pages,…

Poetry

Various

Night falling early: silver in the duff, frosty small change, and in our maple, crows, calculating and…

Ethics Without God

Various

J. Budziszewski’s article “The Second Tablet Project” (June/July) is the clearest, most cogent brief examination I have…