Speedos or Shorts? Bikinis or Bathing Suits?

by Carl R. Trueman

The world that Reich built does not simply want to revise concepts of sexual decorum; It wants to eradicate them.
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9 Feb 2016

The Laughter of the Philosophers

by David Bentley Hart

Humor receives finitude as a gift, conscious of the suffering intrinsic to human existence, but capable of transcendence. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2005

Kierkegaard for Grownups

by Richard John Neuhaus

That extraordinary writer of stories about the “Christ-haunted” American South, Flannery O’Connor, was frequently asked why her people and plots were so often outlandish, even grotesque. She answered, “To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you have to draw large and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2004

Briefly Noted 20

by Various

The First and the Lastby isaiah berlinnew york review books, 141 pages, $19.95 In 1996, two years before he died at the age of eighty-nine, Isaiah Berlin received a request from a professor of philosophy at Wuhan University in China, asking him to offer a précis of his core ideas for a Chinese . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2000

Appropriating the Paradox

by Karl Dusza

Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions by søren kierkegaard  princeton university press, 181 pages, $39    Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits by søren kierkegaard   princeton university press, 442 pages, $45 Kierkegaard presented these two books of discourses to his . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1994