Articles in this Issue
Evangelicals and Mormons Together?
Conflict and conversation.
Your Chip Is Showing
Four recent films show a battle for control among men, women, and machines.
The Spy Who Loved Me
What’s real in espionage fiction?
The Legend of Bono Vox
Lessons learned in the church of U2.
The Groves of Academe
A Man Alive in the Midst of Death
Stranger in a Strange Land
Alternate History
Limit Conditions
How to portray the Holocaust on stage and film.
Tabloid Poems
I Want to Have a Space Alien’s Baby
For Everything There Is a Season
Nostalgia for nature’s seasons in a climate-controlled world.
The Historian as Latter-Day Saint
Faith, history, and the virtues of evangelical diffidence.
Does Everyone in This Room Believe in Demons?
A sociologist’s surprising encounter with fundamentalism.
Everything That Rises Must Converge
The inevitable and preordained trajectories of evolution.
Hoover to Hiroshima
So you think American history from the Great Depression through World War II holds no surprises? Read on.
The Lincoln Supremacy
John Wilkes Booth assassinated the president. Democracy proved harder to kill.
Restore All Things in Thomas?
American Catholic intellectuals in the Progressive era.
C.S. Lewis and Mother Kirk
Why Lewis was a Protestant.
Preemptive Prophecy
In the Turkish city of Kars, schoolgirls forced to abandon their headscarves are killing themselves. A poet who is also a journalist is sent to cover the story.
A Practical Romantic
The films of Douglas Fairbanks.
Americanizing Jews—Judaizing America
350 years of Jewish life in America.
The Lord Our God Is One
Three Christians trace their roots back to the Hebrew Bible-and encounter God’s present-day chosen people.