January/February 1998 Issue

When technology functions as a religion, as savior and liberator, we begin to project divine attributes onto it.

A novel with a large vision, set on the American frontier.

The compelling world of Dick Francis’s mysteries.

Literary approaches to a sacred book.

Milton said that a good poet must first be a good man. Wallace Stegner is one of the few twentieth-century writers who took this to heart.

Elliott Abrams offers American Jews a secular reason for returning to the faith of their fathers.

Studies of region, class, and gender explain just who is no longer going to church.

Southern religion revisited.

Reading, virtual and otherwise.

If consciousness is only an illusion, it’s the greatest mistake human beings have ever made.

Raising a “challenged” child in a world that supports good, pleasant eugenics.

The question is not why modern secularists oppose traditional morality; it is on what grounds they defend any morality.

How the “party of exposure” came to dominate modern culture.

It’s hard to be full of grace when you’re full of fear.