On Not Burying Our Talent

EDITORIAL

Letter to the Editor: November 1989

Timely, Factual... A Jewish View... Nose Against the Windowpane

The Conspiratorial World View of Whittaker Chambers

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #1

John Lukacs

The road from the Hiss-Chambers case to an American president’s advocacy of the idea of the Evil Empire was straight, though slow.

Reading as Sacrament

GUEST COLUMN

Will Hoyt

Good books aren’t highways or avenues of mass transport. They’re foot trails, the kind that are traveled single file or not at all.

Consensus: The Romantic's "Robert's"

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

The popular consensus method, like so much of modern life and culture, has its roots in 18th-century romanticism, and in Rousseau.

The Intellectual Battle over the Puritan Legacy

James J. Thompson Jr

The founders of Massachusetts believed, Miller says, “that ultimately all the world would imitate New England.”

Central America: Perspective & Judgment

James G. Hanink

Throughout Central America the Church is a voice of the simple people. Often it is hemmed in by at best suspicious regimes, of the Right or the Left.

War's Challenge to the Christian Conscience

William D. Miller

To what extent can a political or value system “have its way” when confronted by an informed and resolute Catholic conscience?

A Poet under the Mercy

James E. Person Jr

Many of Vanauken’s poems are reminiscent of Browning, Donne, the early Charles Williams, and others, in style, tone, and theme.

Briefly: November 1989

Review of Diary 1964/65... Butler's Lives of the Saints: Complete Edition... Be Reconciled to God: A Family Guide to Confession... El Infierno... Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements... The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspond­ence between Thomas Jeffer­son and Abigail and John Adams... The Woman of the Pharisees