Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
In Nonzero Robert Wright argues convincingly that certain patterns in biological and cultural evolution cannot properly be…
Love and Sex
Love and Sex I am disappointed in Gilbert Meilaender’s review of Eugene Rogers’ book Sexuality and the…
Systematic Theology: Volumes I & II
It is remarkable, at least to a foreign observer of the American theological scene, that a theologian…
Briefly Noted — 04/00
James Joyce by edna o’brien viking/penguin. 179 pp. $19.95 This entry in the Penguin Lives series of…
Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism
Throughout the Cold War, Sovietologists contended fiercely with one another over the nature of Communist regimes. Engrossed…
Culture: the Anthropologists’ Account
Culture is everywhere: moral (read: cultural) relativism; social (read: cultural) construction; multiculturalism; cultural identity, cultural diversity, and…
Apostles of Rock
Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music by jay r. howard and john m.…
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine by garry wills penguin books, 152 pages, $19.95 Augustinophobia, the fear and loathing of Augustine, is…
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century,…
The Self in Full
An autobiography is a strange beast. While it offers unique access to the inner life of an…
Lewis Remembered
C. S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections.By John Lawlor.Spence. 132 pp. $22.95. When John Lawlor became a student…
Who is My Friend?
Friendship in the Classical World.By David Konstan.University Press. 2206 pp. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Among the “first…
The Archetypes in the Machine
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis. harmony. 368 pp. $25.…
The Elusive Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, American by richard brookhiser simon & schuster, 240 pages, $16.99 National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser…
Liberating Academic Freedom
It is often said that every book is autobiographical. That certainly is true of mine. About a…
