Articles in this Issue
The Postgame Show
A new iteration of David Thomson’s indispensable companion for movie-lovers.
The Idea of the Book
Harder to define than you supposed.
The Bourgeois Revaluation
How the modern world came into being.
It’s Broken
Mark C. Taylor’s proposals to fix America’s colleges and universities.
The Command Economy of Freedom
Sacrifice thy neighbor.
Pro-Capitalist Christendom
Two cheers for the market economy.
“The Most Satisfying Trade”
Religion and commerce in Puritan America.
The Model Scientist?
Kirk, not Spock.
We Visit the Zoo
Reports on and from academe.
The Eucharist Makes the Church
Communion and ecclesiology.
Americans in Africa
Conundrums of aid and development
Chaos and Tenderness
Stories by the Nigerian-born writer Sefi Atta.
Nigeria’s Pentecostal Revolution
Co-opted by the postcolonial state?
A Childhood in Kenya
Preserving “dreams in a time of war.”
The Big Green Apple
New York as a model for sustainability.
Insatiable Intellectual Curiosity
Jonathan Edwards, reading.
Reading Between the Lines
Women and the world of the early church.