Arts & Letters

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Mystery and Desire

Gregory Wolfe

Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen HarperCollins, 179 pages, $20 Ron Hanen’s Mariette in Ecstasy is a…

The Protestant Ethos

Charlotte Allen

Protestants:The Birth of a Revolution by Steven Ozment Doubleday, 270 pages, $20 I am a Catholic, but I married…

Hauerwas Examined

Robert W. Jenson

After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…

Don’t Bet Democratic

William McGurn

Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond by Peter Brown Regnery Gateway, 350…

The Feminist as Paranoid

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…

Back to Our Future

Robin Darling Young

Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century…

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Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil by Hyam Maccoby Free Press, 213 pages, $22.95 Maccoby…

New Age Mush

Charlotte Allen

Belonging To The Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality by fritjof capra and david…

The Blackboard Bungle

Charles L. Glenn

Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America’s Teachers by rita kramer free press, 228 pages, $22.95 In…

Character and Poverty

Jerry Z. Muller

Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…

Church-State Conundrums

Keith Pavlischek

Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…

The 1960s Revisited

Edward S. Shapiro

The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by hillel levine and lawrence…

Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals

Paul V. Mankowski

“When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d…

The Achievement of Jaroslav Pelikan

David W. Lotz

In 1971 the University of Chicago Press published The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600), the first…

The Education Reform Dodge

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work? by Edward B. Fiske Simon & Schuster 303…