This book surprises. A title such as American Babylon suggests a rant against depravity and excess. Many readers would anticipate something from the pen of Pat Robertson on one of his less restrained ...

American Babylon was sent to the printers shortly before Neuhaus’s cancer took its turn for the worse, and can be read as the culmination of a life of study, activism, and devotion. Each chapter could ...

The death of Father Richard John Neuhaus last January coincided with the posthumous publication of his last book, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile, a short, dense meditation on what it ...

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In the post-McLuhan global village, we are indeed the world, except that the world is wired and one where you cannot escape the numbing ubiquity of "Will & Grace," "Friends" and the bikini-clad Halle ...