In This
Issue

The Moral Economy of Guilt

The curious process by which notions of sin and guilt have become both illusory and omnipresent.

The Emancipation of Avarice

What the financial crisis reveals about traditional and modern understandings of economic behavior.

The Trouble with Ayn Rand

Civilization teeters on the brink: they’ve made a movie of Atlas Shrugged.

The Bearable Lightness of Dignity

A concept necessary to human decency but notoriously resistant to precise definition.

Religion, Reason, and Same-Sex Marriage

Faulty reasoning behind the claim that opposition to gay marriage is an irrational prejudice.

Counting China’s Christians

There are as many Christians in China as there are members of the Communist Party.

The Trials of American Lutheranism

The torments that the two major American Lutheran churches have visited on themselves.

Ideology and Transcendence

Shaping Up the Campus

Evangelical Ressourcement

When It’s Time to Stop Talking

Knowing the Beautiful

A Review of To Change the World

A Review of Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

A Review of The Future of History

The Canonization

Stringed Instrument

Overcast

Les Regrets, Sonnet 38

Mato Paha

Victorian Studies

Letters

While We’re At It

Smart genes, dogs in heaven, etc.

First Communion