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Eternal Sounds: A Tribute to the Everly Brothers
The recent death of Phil Everly reminds us of the artistic legacy the Everly Brothers left behind.…
Debt, Gift, and Sacrifice in the Hunger Games
The book, The Hunger Games, is of course better than the movie. The book’s story moves with…
False Hope Springs Eternal
The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton Oxford, 240 pages, $29.95…
A Tangled Mess
By changing the title of the Rapunzel fairy tale to Tangled, the folks at Disney have found…
The Brothers Grim
Hitch-22 by christopher hitchens twelve, 448 pages, $26 The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith…
Remembering Rohmer
Eric Rohmer, leading director of the French New Wave, died in January at age 89. During a…
The Tenure Itch
Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy by Benjamin Pollack Cambridge, 352 pages, $90 n The…
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court by Ronald B. Flowers, Melissa Rogers, and Steven K. Green Baylor,…
Beyond the Wild Wood
The Annotated Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Annie Gauger. W.W. Norton, 480 pages,…
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…
A Rhetorical Question
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush by Elvin…
Sin & Cinema
People are basically good, right? It’s a truism drilled into us by any number of self-help books,…
Briefly Noted 214
A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia by Anna…
The N.Y. Times vs. the Well-Endowed College
In the past few months, there have been a string of articles¯particularly in the New York Times…
Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong
On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…
