Articles in this Issue
Buyer Beware
La Cession de la Louisiane and the price of national greatness.
Wolterstorff’s Philosophical Archaeology
Locke and Reid as our epistemological forebears.
The Search for Redemption
Confession without remorse.
The Revenger’s Tragedy
Vengeance is ours, saith Hollywood.
The Mahatma
Gandhi unvarnished.
The Groves of Academe
Marjorie Reeves, 1905-2003
Slowing Down the Runaway Forgiveness Truck
Is there such a thing as too much mercy?
Raising the Near Dead
An art restorer in search of a person restorer.
Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
Divine Theater
God’s weightiness in worship.
Coming to Terms With Jefferson
Sinister, extraordinary—the paradoxes of a founding father.
Omit Unnecessary Words
On the trail of faith and writing.
Bad Seed
Why did so many American churches embrace eugenics?
Annie Get Your Subaltern Identity
The metamorphosis of the American musical.
Tabloid Poems
Meet the Amazing Half Man Half Pig
From Homer to Hip-Hop
The Jesuit scholar Walter Ong studied the evolution of human consciousness via the history of communication.
An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars
Mark Noll delivers the first installment of a five-volume, multiauthor history of evangelicalism.
Durable Contempt
Why anti-Americanism thrives.
Good News from the Hispanic Church
The community-serving activities of Hispanic Protestant churches.
Dances with Medicine Men
Intimidating doctors, aging and confused parents, and the loss of personhood.
The Sage of Walden Pond
I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well.