January 2006
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January Letters 79
Randomness and Intelligent Design The controversy resulting from Cardinal Schönborn’s opinion article in the New York Times…
More on Bible Babel
The Public Square Back in May 2001, I wrote in this space, under the title “Bible Babel,”…
Europe and Its Discontents
What is the true definition of Europe? Where does it begin, and where does it end? Why,…
The Designs of Science
In July 2005 the New York Times published my short essay “Finding Design in Nature.” The reaction…
Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now
In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to…
Spirit in the Abstract
The last American painters of colossal spiritual ambition were such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett…
The Prudence of Abraham Lincoln
Say the word prudence to the ancients, and you would have named a virtue. Say it to…
God and Man at Davidson
The Presbyterians founded Davidson College in North Carolina in 1837”in order, they said, to educate young men…
Judging Politics
Once there was no politics in the “pre-political” society God created. One day there will be no…
Briefly Noted 1
In Tiers of Glory: The Organic Development of Catholic Church Architecture Through the Ages. By Michael S.…
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
I suppose it is appropriate for a book on eternal life to be long. Given the ground…
Sweet Reason
“Each nation that has ‘liberal’ abortion laws has rapidly become, if it was not already, a nation…
What Do Zombies Think?
I once attended a lecture by a philosopher who, in the midst of a tirade against the…
Imagining Narnia
CS. Lewis is hard to like and easy to love. As a solitary, clever, and bookish child…
