Publications

Dr. Roy Mottahedeh and Jay Tolson at the January 2002 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Roy Mottahedeh, professor of Islamic History at Harvard, and Jay Tolson, senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, spoke at the January 2002 Faith Angle Forum about the history and basic tenets of Islam and their connection to events in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Bruce Hoffman at the January 2002 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Bruce Hoffman, Director of the RAND Corporation, and Jeffrey Goldberg, writer for the New Yorker, spoke at the January 2002 Faith Angle Forum about religious and political motivations behind terrorist acts, particularly, the recent September 11 attacks.

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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

James Bowman

Readers as attentive as mine will doubtless have observed already that I have for some time been trying to avoid…

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Two Ideas of Freedom

George Weigel

Introduction On December 5, 2001, some four hundred people gathered at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., at the invitation…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 2001

Real-World Peace

George Weigel

In his recent World Day of Peace message, Pope John Paul II taught a truth many Catholics have seemingly forgotten:…

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Syndicated Column / January 10, 2002

Ali

James Bowman

The bigger the fan of Mohammed Ali you are, the more you will like Ali, Michael Mann’s almost embarrassingly obsequious…

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Gosford Park

James Bowman

If you had to guess, what would you say would be likely to be Robert Altman’s view of the British…

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Dark Blue World

James Bowman

Dark Blue World, written by Zdenek Sverak and directed by Jan Sverak — the partnership that brought us the lovely…

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Onward And Upward

George Weigel

The world press continues to insist that he’s the “frail and failing Pope.” John Paul II seems to have other…

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Syndicated Column / January 3, 2002

Lantana

James Bowman

Lantana, directed by Ray Lawrence and written by Andrew Bovell adapting his own play, Speaking in Tongues, seems at first…

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Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado)

James Bowman

Walter Salles, whose Central Station was such a delight, has now produced another accomplished film which uses a child- narrator’s…

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Dr. West and Mr. Bin Laden

Eric Cohen

In testimony before the Senate last July, Dr. Michael West, president of Advanced Cell Technology and lead scientist on the…

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The Weekly Standard / December 17, 2001