November 2001


Crisis • Vol. 19 • No. 10 • November 2001

Features:

Aftershock: Reflections on September 11, 2001
Terry Teachout - William McGurn - Robert P. George - Rod Dreher and George W. Rutler consider the consequences of September’s terrorist attacks.


Cover Courtesy of AP Wide World Photos/ U.S. Navy, Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson

Liberal Church? Conservative Church?
According to George Weigel, the Catholic Church is neither—and it’s a good thing, too.

Tolkien’s Catholic Imagination
Jason Boffetti looks at the man—and the faith—behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

What's Ailing Catholic Hospitals?
Christopher Zehnder examines the takeovers, consolidations, and compromises that are challenging the identity of Catholic health care.

Books • Arts • Culture

Hidden Gospels:How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way
by Philip Jenkins

The Myth of Pope Joan
by Alain Boureau

All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics
by Carson Holloway

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts
by Steve Turner

Kingdom of Shadows
by Alan Furst

The Foundations of Christian Bioethics
by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

Who Killed Hollywood?—and Put the Tarnish on Tinsel Town (audiobook)
by Peter Bart

The Music in the Waterfall
Robert R. Reilly revisits the work of Geirr Tveitt, a composer who drew on Norwegian folk tunes to create orchestral works of splendid sophistication.

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

Sed Contra
Deal W. Hudson

Late Edition
Michael M. Uhlmann

Brass Tacks
Katrina J. Zeno

These Parables
George W. Rutler

Sense & Nonsense
James V. Schall

End Notes
Ralph McInerny

Seeing Things
Robert Royal

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