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Race and the O. J. Verdict I offer two comments on James Nuechterlein’s otherwise excellent column on the O. J. Simpson verdict ( “O. J. Simpson & the American Dilemma,” December 1995) . Mr. Nuechterlein makes two assertions in his article that echo commonly held opinions in . . . . Continue Reading »

The Benedictional of Aethelwold By Robert Deshman Princeton University Press, 287 pages, $99.50 A true historian of art, Robert Deshman asserts that images are the equal of texts as historical documents. In this monograph on one of the most important medieval Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscripts, he . . . . Continue Reading »

Beyond Good and Evil? Elaine Pagels has forged for herself a brilliant career as an academic superstar (Jeffrey Burton Russell, “Getting Satan Behind Us,” November 1995). The Gnostic Gospels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, and now The Origin of Satan are literary events that push their way . . . . Continue Reading »

In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self By Ruth Padel Princeton University Press, 210 pages, $12.95 paper Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness By Ruth Padel Princeton University Press, 276 pages, $29.95 A brilliant book, Padel’s first work”now reissued . . . . Continue Reading »

Anti-Christian America? As usual, I find myself in substantial agreement with much that Midge Decter writes (“A Jew in Anti-Christian America,” October 1995) ”in this instance, especially her healthy refusal to become paranoid about the glitches in the dominant society, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Philosophy and Law. By Leo Strauss. Translated by Eve Adler. State University of New York Press. 157 pages, $14.95. In a time when the students of the late Leo Strauss are in various ways advocating “Straussianism,” it is good to have a definitive translation of the book in which the . . . . Continue Reading »

Paul Davies & Critics: An Exchange In his essay “Physics and the Mind of God” (August/September), Paul Davies demonstrates the insular, almost solipsistic, nature of modern theoretical physics. Because theoretical physics is the modernist discipline par excellence, such a demonstration must . . . . Continue Reading »

Consciousness and Transcedence: The Theology of Eric Voegelin. By Michael P. Morrissey. University of Notre Dame Press. 353 pages, $41.95. In the 1940s Eric Voegelin wrote that a solution to the modern crisis would require, among other things, a “new Christian philosophy of history” . . . . Continue Reading »

The Culture War Front In “Hard Truths About the Culture War” (June/July), Robert H. Bork correctly identifies the most important fronts where our culture is under attack, but I think he gives too much credit (or blame) to liberal ideology. Could the ideologically motivated . . . . Continue Reading »

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism . By Tina Rosenberg. Random. 437 pages, $25. In the aftermath of the defeat of fascism and Japanese militarism in World War II, there was little controversy over the extensive programs of de-Nazification and demilitarization launched by . . . . Continue Reading »