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Sex and Danger at UVA

From the May 2015 Print Edition

This past November, Rolling Stone magazine published an article that told the story of a gang rape in a fraternity house at the University of Virginia. This report soon became national news. When we first saw the article, we were uncomfortably reminded of Tom Wolfe’s 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte . . . . Continue Reading »

Godless Theosis

From the April 2014 Print Edition

The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxyby aristotle papanikolaounotre dame, 248 pages, $27What is “the ­destiny of the ­Orthodox Church . . . in a world radically different from that which shaped our ­mentality, our thought-forms, indeed our whole life as . . . . Continue Reading »