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C. S. Lewis on Mere Science

From the October 1998 Print Edition

In The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis noted that nothing he could say would keep some people from saying that he was anti-science, a charge he was nevertheless eager to refute. In fact he had receiv ed . . . . Continue Reading » 1 Oct 1998

The Prudence of John Henry Newman

From the August/September 1994 Print Edition

On January 22, 1991, the Roman phase of an investigatory process into the character and merits of John Henry Newman (1801-1890)-begun formally in 1958 in Birmingham, England-was completed with the . . . . Continue Reading » 1 Aug 1994

The Haunted Mr. Hawthorne

From the January 1993 Print Edition

Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Edward Haviland Miller University of Iowa Press, 596 pages, $35 “Jefferson’s public career focused on securing for . . . . Continue Reading » 1 Jan 1993

God’s Spy: Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903-1990

From the February 1991 Print Edition

In the course of a very long life, Malcolm Muggeridge made many enemies, but he surely made more friends, among whom it is one of the great pleasures of my life to have been included. His enemies . . . . Continue Reading » 1 Feb 1991

The Rational Animal

From the January 1991 Print Edition

The Culture We Deserve by Jacques Barzun University Press of New England, 185 pages, $19.95 “I have got materials toward a treatise,” Jonathan Swift wrote to Alexander Pope in September . . . . Continue Reading » 1 Jan 1991

Solzhenitsyn and Modern Literature

From the August/September 1990 Print Edition

For the advanced writer of our time,” Diana Trilling wrote twenty-five years ago in “The Moral Radicalism of Norman Mailer,” “the self is his supreme, even sole referent.” The specifically . . . . Continue Reading » 1 Aug 1990