Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The One True Church
It has been a while since the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued Dominus Iesus…
Off Center
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity By Darrin M. McMahon Oxford…
The Popular Adams
John Adams By David McCullough Simon & Schuster. 752 pp. $35 Ever since 1776 John Adams and…
The Reappearing Nuclear Family
As if it didn’t have enough to fret about, the two-parent American family got taken for quite…
Hamlet in Purgatory
Reviewed by Carol Zaleski This is a brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and…
The American Mind
The Public Square Students of the political philosopher Leo Strauss are fond of quoting the master to…
American Satyricon
We live in what we like to think of as a very sophisticated society. International commerce keeps…
States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876
Forrest McDonald, the Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama, writes that “the most…
Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825–2000
In the introduction to this book Joel Schwartz calls our attention to the titles of two major…
L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?
You don’t have to be Jewish to drink L’Chaim, to lift a glass “To Life.” Everyone in…
Briefly Noted 29
The Camel Knows the Way. By Lorna Kelly. Self“published, available on Amazon.com. 266 pp. $18 .95 .…
We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court
That redoubtable crew, the writers who brought forth the symposium “ The End of Democracy? The Judicial…
Technicians of Learning
Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…
Negotiating Identity: Catholic Higher Education Since 1960
Ursuline Sister Alice Gallin is Father Theodore Hesburgh’s contemporary in the world of Catholic higher education. After…
The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
For most of his fifty years as Orthodoxy’s premier thinker, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was known simply as…
