From First Things, Harvey Mansfield on How to Understand Politics; Robert George on Law and Moral Purpose; Gilbert Meilaender on Conscience and Authority; Mary Ann Glendon on Plato as Statesman; Stanley Hauerwas on the virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre; a review of The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea by Remi Brague; a review of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham; and a review of Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Benedict XVI. From The Claremont Institute, an interview with Fr. James V. Schall on Pope Benedict and the defense of reason. A review of How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now by James L. Kugel; The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong; and The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. An interview with Richard Myers, co-editor of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought. A review of A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State by Daryl Hart; and Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religion in the Public Square by Brendan Sweetman. More on A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. From Salon, an interview with John Haught, author of God and the New Atheism. An article on the pointless negativity of atheism. The "New Atheists" are responding to provocation, not mounting an arbitrary attack: On behalf of the New Atheists AC Grayling blasts back at Theodore Dalrymple.
