Winter 2009

Articles

Exhortation

Putting Man Before Descartes

John Lukacs

Human knowledge is personal and participant--placing us at the center of the universe

The Future of the American Frontier

John Tirman

Can one of our most enduring national myths, much in evidence in the recent presidential campaign, be reinvented yet again?

Affirmative Action and After

W. Ralph Eubanks

Now is the time to reconsider a policy that must eventually change. But simply replacing race with class isn’t the solution.

Spies Among Us

Clay Risen

Military snooping on civilians is more widespread than ever

A Country for Old Men

Edward Hoagland

Having reached the shores of seniority himself, the author finds a surprising contentment in the eyes of his fellow retirees

Dubai: Globalization on Steroids

William Morehouse

Collateral Damage

Robert Roper

The Civil War halted Walt Whitman's outpouring of great poetry

My Bright Abyss

Christian Wiman

I never felt the pain of unbelief until I believed. But belief itself is hardly painless.

The High Road to Narnia

George Watson

C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien on universal truths

Fiction

Nessus at Noon

John Updike

The Art of Human Surveillance

Bradford Tice

Poetry

Between Two Worlds: Rosanna Warren

Langdon Hammer

Four Poems

Rosanna Warren

Arts

Cauldron Bubble

Edwin M. Yoder, Jr.

Macbeth does not work without its supernatural elements