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Fare Thee Well, Tony Lewis
It hardly seems possible that I have been reading Anthony Lewis for thirty-two years. In fact, I…
Taking Responsibility
With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Naural Theology By Stanley Hauerwas Brazos. 250…
Religious Freedom in a Time of War
It was a mighty battle and alleluias ascended when, in the late 1990s, religious freedom was institutionally…
Religious Freedom: Innovation and Development
According to John Henry Newman, whose two hundredth birthday we celebrated in February 2001, Christianity came into…
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
The great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. penned a host of memorable aphorisms that summarize his legal…
It Ain’t Got That Swing
In 1987 President Reagan invited Miles Davis to a formal dinner at the White House. He went,…
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
In accord with much of Scripture itself, the churches of the Reformation have emphasized the ear over…
An American Bible
Readers of popular evangelical magazines could plausibly conclude that the historic Protestant conception of the authority and…
Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants
This book is at once a protest and a lamentation against what might be called the tradition…
Not So Gay Blades
The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subcultureby howard p. chudacoffprinceton university press, 341 pages, $29.95…
Briefly Noted 20
The First and the Lastby isaiah berlinnew york review books, 141 pages, $19.95 In 1996, two years…
To NATO from Plato
Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peaceby thomas l. pangle and peter j.…
Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture
Not long before he died, the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin somberly summed up his, and our, age:…
Sex and the Married Missileer
At Minot Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, a wife kisses her husband goodbye, knowing that…
Revisionism Revisited
Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth AmendmentBy Raoul Berger.Liberty Fund. 555 pp. $19.50 cloth, $9.50…