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The Catholic Bill Buckley
This essay is adapted from a talk delivered at the Portsmouth Abbey School in 2010. In the capacious personal Index Locutionum Prohibitorum of William F. Buckley Jr., I suspect...
The Neuhaus I Knew
Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square by randy boyagoda image, 459 pages, $30 T he Richard Neuhaus I knew first appears on page 179 of Randy...
The End of Art
Nearly everyone cares—or says he cares—about art. After all, art ennobles the spirit, elevates the mind, and educates the emotions. Or does it? In fact, tremendous irony attends our...
Barometer Falling
Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture by lawrence rainey yale university press, 238 pages, $144.90 Some books are like barometers: interesting chiefly for what they tell us...
Tracing the Tokens of God’s Presence
The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage by paul johnson harpercollins, 216 pages, $24 suspect that most readers will be at least distantly familiar with the British historian and...
The Intellectuals and the Masses
The Intellectuals And The Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligensia, 1880-1939 by john carey academy chicago publishers, 246 pages, $12.39 Anyone seeking a vivid illustration of the...
Taking Dialogue Seriously
The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective by j. a. dinoia, o.p. catholic university press, 200 pages, $29.95 We live at an odd moment. One mark of that oddness...
