September 2007
September Letters
Salt and LightI was deeply moved by Sally Thomas’ article about her experience as a homeschooling mother…
Who Speaks for the Church?
The Public Square The Senate’s “comprehensive” immigration bill has been sidelined for a time but will surely…
How to Understand Politics
For some time we have taken political science for granted, as if it did not require some…
The Politics of Global Warming
With the virtual apotheosis of Al Gore, talk of global warming has become pervasive—and pervasively one-sided. Churches…
Evangelicals and the Great Tradition
This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church-state studies at…
Briefly Noted 207
Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in Modern Adolescence by Mark D. Regnerus Oxford Univ. Press, 304 pages,…
Benedict and the Biblical Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by benedict xvidoubleday, 374 pages,…
Don John of Austria Is Riding to the Sea
The Victory of the West:The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepantoby Niccolò CapponiPerseus, 412 pages,…
Looking for America
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan Yale University Press, 736 pages, $35 Hugh Brogan’s Alexis…
Innocents Abroad
Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan Knopf, 527 pages, $30 “These Yankees are most disagreeable Fellows to have…
Work Song
From the day my old man hazed the young cadet to now, as I pull on my…