January 1, 2003



Crisis Vol. 21 No. 1 - January 2003

Features:

Another Reckoning: A Response to Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s A Moral Reckoning Ronald J. Rychlak looks at the latest—and most aggressive—attack on the Church’s record during the Holocaust. What he finds is a book rife with distortion, dishonesty, and error.

The Church and the Jews in the Middle Ages
Thomas F. Madden takes you through this controversial subject and separates truth from the all-too-popular myth.


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The Satirist of the Fall
F.H. Buckley explores the dark satire of Evelyn Waugh on the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth.

Gentleman’s Astronomy
Benjamin D. Wiker argues that stargazing can civilize a restless mind.

Golf and the Cardinal Virtues
Todd M. Aglialoro shows you how golf teaches virtue, especially humility.

Books - Arts - Culture:

Poem
“The Averted” by Les Murray

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
by Martin Amis

After Christianity
by Gianni Vattimo

The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken
by Terry Teachout

Introduction to Moral Theology
by Romanus Cessario, O.P.

Thirty Days on Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius
by Paul Mariani

Slim and Shady
Terry Teachout says that Eminem is the new Elvis...in the worst way.

Einar Englund: Out of the Shadows
Robert R. Reilly introduces you to a composer undeservedly lost in the shadows of Jean Sibelius.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

Sed Contra
Deal W. Hudson

Late Edition
Michael M. Uhlmann

Guest Column
H.W. Crocker III

From the Hill
Rick Santorum

These Parables
George W. Rutler

Sense & Nonsense
James V. Schall

End Notes
Ralph McInerny

Seeing Things
Robert Royal

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