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I read with considerable interest Carl E. Olson’s essay on the apocalyptic fever of Tim LaHaye’s vast readership (“ No End in Sight ,” November 2002). Mr. Olson’s description is more charitable towards this religious spasm than is mine. However, he makes one grotesque . . . . Continue Reading »

Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea. Edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman. Yale University Press. 307 pp. $65. St. Antony is usually regarded as the father of Christian monasticism. He was deeply involved with the disputes of Arius and a staunch defender of . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m sure we are all pleased that the Linkers have been blessed with a son, as Damon Linker reports in “Fatherhood, 2002” (November 2002). Moreover, it is good to know that mother and child (and, we must now add, father) have passed successfully—indeed, . . . . Continue Reading »

Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives Edited by Robert T. Pennock MIT Press, 805 pages, $45 Advocates of Darwinian naturalism would like us to believe that the universe simply flashed into existence one fine day all on its own; and . . . . Continue Reading »

The Limits of Globalization M. A. Casey ( “How to Think About Globalization,” October 2002) accurately portrays the secular elite’s inability to appreciate the depth of influence that religious cultures maintain over the actions of individuals, including those who were responsible . . . . Continue Reading »

After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism. By Fergus Kerr. Blackwell. 254 pp. $24.95 paper. “The problem with Thomism,” Flannery O’Connor once wrote, “is that it comes in such horrible wrappers.” Today’s students—if they read Thomas Aquinas at all—are likely to know only that he . . . . Continue Reading »

We, the undersigned, are grateful to Darrell Cole for “Listening to Pacifists” (August/September). He writes with charity, seeking to state clearly the differences as well as the similarities between just war morality and pacifism. However, we fear that his account of pacifism still leaves much . . . . Continue Reading »

Night falling early: silver in the duff, frosty small change, and in our maple, crows, calculating and tentative. But I don’t grudge darkness; I did back in my rough and greedy youth spent wanting—deep in those never-long-enough days I clung to—sky whose blue coffers I prayed would . . . . Continue Reading »

Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground. By Roger S. Magnusson. Yale University Press. 306 pp. $35. Roger S. Magnusson opines that mercy killing should be legalized and regulated because, in no small part, “illicit euthanasia” is already practiced. But so too are incest and . . . . Continue Reading »

J. Budziszewski’s article “The Second Tablet Project” (June/July) is the clearest, most cogent brief examination I have seen of the problem of doing ethics without God. I agree with him that any attempt to justify a system of ethics while denying its metaphysical basis is doomed to ultimate . . . . Continue Reading »