March 2004
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Episcopalian Preferences Revisited
I very much appreciated reading Philip Turner’s ruminations about “The Episcopalian Preference” (November 2003). I have thought…
Nasty and Nice in Politics and Religion
The Public Square A half-truth is, more often than not, the half that we prefer to believe,…
The Bard, the Black, the Jew
More than any other writer, Shakespeare embodies the distinctive principles of Western Civilization. Men and women of…
War & Statecraft
In October 2002, George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., delivered a…
Publick Religion: Adams v. Jefferson
The civic catechisms of our day still celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s experiment in religious liberty. To end a…
Gibson’s Passion
From mosaics and music to paintings and plays, the arts have proven to be a mighty vehicle…
A Jury of One’s Godless Peers
Reading First Things may disqualify you from sitting on a jury, at least if a lawyer decides…
Evangelicals in the Dock
It’s called straining a gnat and swallowing a camel. At its annual meeting in Atlanta in November…
Briefly Noted 18
“We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. By David Herbert Donald. Simon & Schuster. 269…
Jefferson’s Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a little different from the other great monuments of Washington, D.C. Standing…
Art: A New History
Yes, it is possible to write a single-volume general history of art, if you narrow the definition…
Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy
In the moderately memorable 1997 movie The Edge , Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin portray characters marooned…
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
Few, if any, other theologians could have written The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian…
