A note on "Imagine There's No Heaven," a review essay by Andrew Klavan.

How I got on the subscribers' list for The Claremont Review of Books I'm not quite sure. Normally I don't go for periodicals with an explicit political tendency (not that there's anything wrong with that), and the CRB definitely has that. As they put it, they "offer...bold arguments for a reinvigorated conservatism." But they do also say they "engag[e] policy at the level of ideas," and it's hard for me not to like that.

A case in point is the review essay, "Imagine There's No Heaven," by Andrew Klavan, in the Fall 2005 issue. He reviews Alister McGrath's Twilight of Atheism and Sam Harris's End of Faith. I won't say much more here, other than to note the good job Klavan does commending the embrace of tolerance that religious faith seems specially suited for.

first published Nov 21, 2005