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Dante. By R. W. B. Lewis. Viking. 205 pp. $19.95Dante: A Life in Works. By Robert Hollander.…
All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics
Are there prizes for titles and dust jackets? If so, Spence Publishing should win them both for…
Pluralism in Philosophy: Changing the Subject
John Kekes has written a book that will provoke readers. It will stir up their interest, lead…
Sovereign Virtue
Ronald Dworkin, the Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and the Quain Professor…
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Journal of a Soul: The Autobiography of Pope John XXIII. Translated by Dorothy White. Image/Doubleday. 453 pp.…
The Trouble With Principle
“For all the radical talk,” Stanley Fish concludes in a summary of the political theory of William…
Letter from Budapest
Murderous cruise missiles crash into factories, office buildings, farm houses, all just across the border in Serbia,…
The Mozart Effect
It can cure backache. And asthma. And obesity, writer’s block, alcoholism, schizophrenia, prejudice, heart disease, drug addiction,…
Exorcising Demons
Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry by frank walsh yale university press,…
Abortion, Set to Music
Sacred Music of the 20th Century LAL-2001, Life Art, Ltd. 129 Frandview Terrace, Box 300, Lakeside, MT…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
The Death of Superman
The man of steel, the one who routinely saved the planet from the ravages of evil invaders,…
At the Concert
There! He’s one of the first onstage! A less disheveled crowd than usual . . . Under…
Pop Goes the Culture
We made a mistake in a recent public symposium by saying, in response to a question, that…
Do You Believe What You Sing?
Why Catholics Can’t Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste by thomas day…
