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 | | A recent “New Yorker” review of the big-budget, special-effects-laden retooling of C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" goes far beyond commenting on the film and is, in effect, a review of Lewis himself, and of his unorthodox approach to orthodoxy. |
 | | In a provocative article at The New Republic Online, Franklin Foer looks at the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel Alito, the potential Catholic majority his confirmation would create, and speculates: "...the emergence of the Court's Catholic bloc reflects the reality of social conservatism: Evangelicals supply the political energy, Catholics the intellectual heft. |
 | | In my own hubris, I'd planned to try to knit all these concepts together into some kind of seamless whole, but I realized that this would wind up taking an entire book, that would then sit on one small shelf of one bookstore (probably in the remainder bin). |
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