Articles in this Issue
A Cyber-Pilgrim’s Progress
When technology functions as a religion, as savior and liberator, we begin to project divine attributes onto it.
Expelled from the Garden
A novel with a large vision, set on the American frontier.
Of Sin and Horses
The compelling world of Dick Francis’s mysteries.
Bible Stories for Derrida’s Children
Literary approaches to a sacred book.
Secular Saint
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.
The Disappearing Jews
Elliott Abrams offers American Jews a secular reason for returning to the faith of their fathers.
Whatever Happened to Religion in Britain?
Studies of region, class, and gender explain just who is no longer going to church.
Diversity Comes to Dixie
Southern religion revisited.
Revenge of the Scroll
Reading, virtual and otherwise.
Soulless
If consciousness is only an illusion, it’s the greatest mistake human beings have ever made.
Idiots, Imbeciles, Cretins
Raising a “challenged” child in a world that supports good, pleasant eugenics.
Nietzsche Was Right
The question is not why modern secularists oppose traditional morality; it is on what grounds they defend any morality.
The Repeal of Reticence
How the “party of exposure” came to dominate modern culture.
Habits of the Heartless
It’s hard to be full of grace when you’re full of fear.