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The Present State of Our Polygamous Future
In an interview on the science in science fiction, novelist William Gibson noted, “[T]he future is already…
Waiting for St. Vladimir
Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying,…
Race Matters
Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…
While We’re At It
• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…
Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning
ARENDT, AUGUSTINE, AND THE NEW BEGINNING by Stephan Kampowski Eerdmans, 364 pages, $50 paper This scholarly study…
Lives and Legacies
Biography, Virginia Woolf once observed, is the search for the fertile fact. The four best biographies of…
Pontius Pilate: The Unjust Judge
As a lawyer and judge, my understanding of the Bible has naturally become colored by my experiences…
Women’s Work
Madwomen:The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral translated by Randall Couch University of Chicago Press, 160 pages,…
Children of Men
Going to see a film based on a novel you’ve read and enjoyed is always problematic. The…
Rocky Is My Prayer Partner
In the sixth installment of the Rocky series¯which opens today¯a fifty-something-year-old Rocky Balboa sits nervously awaiting the…
Looking for Mary in Christmas Carols
It’s Christmas, so we’re singing carols. OK, it’s not Christmas, it’s really Advent, and “carol” has a…
A Mirror Darkly
Arts of Darkness:?American Noir and the Quest for Redemption by Thomas S. Hibbs Spence, 316 pages, $27.95…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
Waking Up to Springtime
It’s a good day to be thinking about the Christian mission, this Day of the Conversion of…
Why Kim Jong-Il Should Fear AntonÃn Dvořák
Now that the New York Philharmonic has accepted the North Korean government’s invitation to perform in Pyongyang…
