September 4 , 2006


Crisis • Vol. 24 • No. 7 • September 2006 •

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Features:

How To Talk To Democrats About Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Eric Pavlat offers five effective strategies for making the pro-life case to the Left.

The Two Novaks: Jews, Christians, And The One True God
Michael Novak examines the Jewish–Christian divide through the eyes of a rabbi who shares his name.

The War Room: What We Have Learned About Confirming Good Judges
Joan Frawley Desmond gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the battle to confirm John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court . . . and reveals the strategies that led to victory.

The King's Anguish: Mistranslating The Holy Scriptures
Anthony Esolen takes a discouraged look at the lectionary.

Painting Money: The Ugly Business Of Contemporary Art
Maureen Mullarkey takes a walk through the Whitney Gallery's recent Biennial and explores the transformation of art into a commodity.

 


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Poems

“To My Little Sister on the Anniversary of Her Death”
by Carrie Jerrell

Books

Manliness
by Harvey C. Mansfield

Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism
by Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster

The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church
by G. W. Bernard

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War
by Harry S. Stout

The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism, and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat
by Pedro A. Sanjua

 

Film

Lady in the Water

Music

Getting the Requiem Right

Departments:

Letters

Columns:

The Editor’s View
Brian Saint-Paul

The Idler
David Warren

Cloud of Witnesses
George W. Rutler

Sense and Nonsense
James V. Schall

Ashes to Ashes
Tom Howard

 

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