October 2016
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Genius of Winding Paths
Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks edited by charles e. beveridge, lauren meier, and…
A More Perfect Absolutism
It is part of the absurdity of American life that we decide questions of truth under the…
The Cold War Is Over
Like most Englishmen, I grew up with a natural dislike of “abroad” and a belief in the…
The Court After Scalia
The term’s defining event was the February death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Everyone wonders how his successor…
Don’t Ask the Kids
Distrust of authority is now the American norm. In 1964, 77 percent of Americans said that they…
Boomer Pharisaism
I live in a capital city. As in every capital in America, the city’s chief business is…
Learning to Play
My piano tuner is well over eighty years old. Each time I call him, I fear I’ll…
Liberal Transcendence
It’s tough to be a Martin Luther King liberal. All his life he has believed that bias…
Charisma to Routine
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by eddie s. glaude jr. crown, 288…
All Things to All People
Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuriesby patrick…
Quotidian Wonder
Zero K by don delillo scribner, 288 pages, $26 In 2013, Jonathan Safran Foer claimed that “Only…
Politics of Vulnerability
I don’t think we’ve fully realized how acute feelings of vulnerability have become in twenty-first-century America. At…
The Ten Suggestions
When Moses came down from the mountain and cloudbearing the Ten Commandments in handand saw the calf…
A Flurry of Owls
Once again a child asks me suddenly What is a poem?,And once again I find myself riffing…
Embodied Caregiving
Dependency is just as much a part of the human experience as the ability to reason. And…
