Janet Marsden

John Cardinal Krol and the Cultural Revolution By E. Michael Jones. Fidelity Press, 550 pages, $35 The Editor-in-Chief of this journal tells me that he knows a Catholic editor who claims that all his friends are conservatives, his close friends are right-wingers, and his best friends are . . . . Continue Reading »

One By One From the Inside OutBy Glenn C. Loury Free Press 332 pages, $25 Subtitled “Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America,” this is one of the most refreshingly, albeit painfully, candid books on race to have appeared in many a year. (Two of the major essays appeared first . . . . Continue Reading »

The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-first Century By Robert Benne Fortress, 242 pp, $16 No book of recent vintage has provided such a comprehensive and intelligent overview of current options in relating Christian faith to the general culture as Robert Benne’s The Paradoxical . . . . Continue Reading »

The Roosevelts: An American Saga By Peter Collier, with David Horowitz Simon & Schuster 542 pp. $27.50 The perennial discussion of something called the American civil religion inevitably gets around to reflections on the presidency as a kind of priestly office. It is a form of religious . . . . Continue Reading »