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editorials

American Gadara

Yes, Virginia, There Is a God
by James M. Kushiner

quodlibet

columns

Illuminations

What Was Done Before

by Anthony Esolen

Mortal Remains

The Rules of Progress

by S. M. Hutchens

From Heavenly Harmony

Taught by Melodious Sonnets

Familiar Christmas Hymns and More from Ralph Vaughan Williams—"Christian Agnostic"

by Ken Myers

A Thousand Words

Titian's The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

As It Is Written...

Tempted from Above

by Patrick Henry Reardon

30.6—Nov/Dec 2017

features

The Greatness Commission

Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity
by Anthony Esolen

Can Beauty Save the World?

Neither Dostoevsky nor Prince Myshkin Makes the Case
by Vigen Guroian

The Great Divorce

Christianity & the Liberal Society
by James Hitchcock

Fatal Instinct

The Thousand-Year Gap in Nietzsche's Education & Our Modern Sickness
by Craig Payne

Desires & Devices

Charles Williams's Prophetic Warning About the Temptations of Technology
by Karl D. Stephan

views

Half a Pig & a Wedding

Rebecca Sicree on Pride of Table, Celebration & Other Disorders

Odious & Deplorable

Ben Reinhard on C. S. Lewis, Brideshead Revisited & the Middle Things

The Messiah's Beauty

Michael Martin De Sapio on Benedict XVI on the Fairest of the Sons of Men

A Peculiar Sickness

John A. Burtka IV on Individualism in America & Its Cure

book reviews

Defensive Lapses

Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark
reviewed by R. V. Young

Der Fuhrer's God

Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich by Richard Weikart
reviewed by Joe Keysor

The Central Lie

C. S. Lewis: Anti-Darwinist: A Careful Examination of the Development of His Views on Darwinism by Jerry Bergman
reviewed by Louis Markos

departments

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