The logic of “making” babies
Gilbert Meilaender on the temptation to instrumentalize our bodies
On babies and words
Leon Kass on the re-configuring of human origins
Divine demonstration
Robert Louis Wilken on the folly of arguing for God’s existence apart from the reality of Christ
Philosophy and loving the Logos
Robert Louis Wilken on early Christians and the pursuit of a virtuous life
Ingmar Bergman and God
Gene D. Phillips, S.J. on the shape of Ingmar Bergman’s religious pondering
Postmodern manners and morals
Mary P. Nichols on the films of Whit Stillman as comedies of manners
The de(con)struction of the humanities (and of truth)
Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb on the skeptical tendencies of the postmodern academy
Blest be the ties of language that bind us
Marion Montgomery on the precious gift of words
The academy’s deconstruction of both person and community
Marion Montgomery on cultivating “a deportment of intellect governed by a continuing concern for the truth of things”
From university to multiversity to demoversity
Alvin Kernan on tectonic shifts in higher education since the 1960s